Ready to Quit? Great! Here’s How …

With so many people still smoking, some of them are bound to be your employees. Or maybe you’re a smoker yourself thinking about finally quitting.

You can help employees quit smoking with a concise, compelling safety meeting from BLR’s 7-Minute Safety Trainer. The session covers:

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  Dangers of smoking;
• Benefits of quitting;
• Planning to quit;
• Quit day;
• Substitutes for smoking; and
• What to do if at first you don’t succeed.

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Whether the topic is smoking cessation or any number of other vital safety and health issues, give us 7 minutes and we’ll give you a complete training session. BLR’s 7-Minute Safety Trainer helps you fulfill key OSHA-required training tasks in the time it takes to smoke a cigarette. Try it at no cost and see

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Quitting 1-2-3

Here are a few quit smoking strategies employees can use on Thursday or whenever they are ready to quit.

1. Think about what smoking is doing to you.

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  ncreased risk of heart attack, stroke, and lung cancer
• Coughing, shortness of breath, and risk of bronchitis and emphysema
• Reduced resistance to colds and illness
• Harm to nonsmokers around you and to unborn children

2. Think about the benefits of quitting.

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  Immediate and steady reduction of damage to lungs and heart
• Reduced risk to nonsmokers
• More money for important and enjoyable things

3. Set a date to stop smoking now. When it arrives:

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  Get rid of all smoking materials.
• Find substitutes: exercising, deep breathing, drinking water, chewing gum.
• Use a patch, gum, or inhaler, if appropriate.
• Remind yourself that you’re getting healthier every minute of every day you don’t smoke.
• Start thinking of yourself as a nonsmoker—now, and for the rest of your life.

If you can’t stop smoking now:

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  Smoke less and put off smoking every cigarette.
• Buy cigarettes by the pack, and keep switching brands.
• Imagine you’re a nonsmoker—what would that be like?
• Try a nicotine patch, gum, or inhaler.
• Remind yourself every day that you’re never too old, and it’s never too late, to quit.

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Can you picture safety training in effective, 7-minute sessions? Get the details.

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Safety & Health Training in Minutes

These strategies are excerpted from 7-Minute Safety Trainer safety meeting, "Are You Ready to Quit Smoking?" The session provides you with a detailed trainer’s outline as well as an illustrated handout, quiz, and quiz answers to get your points across quickly—and cost-effectively.

All told, 7-Minute Safety Trainer contains 50 prewritten meetings covering almost every aspect of safety you’d want or need to train on, in a format designed to be taught in as little as 7 minutes. Major topics include:

—Confined spaces
—Electrical safety
—Fire safety and emergency response
—HazCom
—Machine guarding and lockout/tagout
—Material handling
—PPE use and care
—Housekeeping/slips, trips, and falls
—and dozens more

Just make as many copies as you need of the included handouts and quizzes, and you’re ready to train.

Equally important is that this “trainer’s bible” ships new meetings every quarter to respond to new and changed regulations. This service is included in the program price, which averages just over $1 a working day. In fact, this is one of BLR’s most popular safety programs.

If you’d like to personally evaluate 7-Minute Safety Trainer and see how it can build safety awareness, we’ll be happy to send it to you for 30 days on a no-cost, no-obligation trial basis. Just let us know, and we’ll arrange it.

 

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