One more hurdle removed for BC smokers hoping to quit in 2016

Those who complete Freedom from Smoking are six times more likely to be smoke free one year later than those who quit on their own. The second and third-generation versions mimic smoking even better, in that they appear more effective at delivering nicotine.

For eight weeks, the hospital will offer the American Lung Association’s Freedom From Smoking program.

“After people pick up their free nicotine replacement products, I encourage them to contact Quit Now, our free support program for people trying to quit smoking or other tobacco use”, McDonald said in the news release. That’s 25% of British Columbians who smoke.

In addition to helping restore smokers’ health, the Smoking Cessation Trust can help smokers save hundreds of dollars annually, as smoking becomes a progressively more expensive habit to support.

Recent evaluation of the program’s nicotine replacement therapy shows it helps people attempt to quit, and to be successful. “Providing medically appropriate nicotine replacement products opens up access for all enrolled participants to get a starter kit of nicotine patches, gum, or lozenges”. “Quitting smoking without support can be a challenge, but the good news for smokers in Wales is that they don’t have to go it alone”.

“In Britain, these are the number one tool people use to quit smoking and a report by the British government has found they’re 95 percent safer than cigarettes”. One of the most common, and perhaps most hard, resolution is the decision to quit smoking, for good.

DHEC has added online enrollment and round-the-clock service hours to the Quitline, which is a free counseling service to help smokers quit.

The 18 to 21 year group is therefore a time when many smokers transition to regular use of cigarettes.

It is now illegal to smoke in Hawaii if you’re not 21, as new smoking laws that raise the smoking age to 21 have came into effect January 1. Lola Irvin, administrator of Hawaii Department of Health with the chronic disease prevention and health promotion division said, that about 4 students in high school try their first cigarette each year, and that 1 out of 3 get addicted dies prematurely.