QUIT SMOKING

Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 430,700 American lives each year.

Smoking costs the United States approximately $97.2 billion each year in health-care costs and lost productivity.

It is directly responsible for 87 percent of lung cancer cases and causes most cases of emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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Make 2006 the year you or someone close to you quits smoking
The following information may be helpful to your efforts. If you’re looking to quit,
we encourage you to contact 1–800–QUIT–NOW or Also Click Here for additional support.
In addition, you may be interested in accessing the materials ABC World News Tonight,
in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health,
and North American Quit Line Consortium, developed for its unprecedented month–long series called Quit to Live which ran throughout November 2005.

Quit to Live provided viewers with information about the dangers of smoking, smoking
cessation, and lung cancer research and prevention.
You can access the entire series and related materials on the Quit to Live Web site HERE*

Quitting Information
In 2004, 44.5 million adults (20.9 percent) in the United States were current smokers—23.4 percent of men and18.5 percent of women.
An estimated 70 percent of these smokers said they wanted to quit.
An estimated 14.6 million (40.5 percent) adult everyday smokers in 2004 had stopped smoking for at least 1 day during the preceding 12 months because they were trying to quit.
An estimated 45.6 million adults were former smokers in 2004, representing 50.6 percent of those who had ever smoked.

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