Quitters Do Prosper!

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

Ask your employees if these benefits sound prosperous to them!

The American Cancer Society sponsors this event and gives many useful tools and resources to help employees or their loved ones quit. Point them to the link at the end of the article for the Society’s website.

In the meantime, you can point out what smoking is doing to smokers or their loved ones:

• Increased 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 and to unborn children

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Encourage smokers to set a date to stop smoking now. When it arrives:

• Get rid of all smoking materials.
• Find substitutes such as exercise, deep breathing, drinking water, chewing gum.
• Remind yourself that you’re getting healthier every day.
• Spend time in nonsmoking areas.

For employees who simply can’t stop smoking now, encourage them to:

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

Tell employees they can get more information about this year’s Smokeout at:
http://www.cancer.org/Healthy/StayAwayfromTobacco/GreatAmericanSmokeout/index

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Why It Matters

• 400,000+ deaths annually in the United States caused by smoking and exposure to smoke.
  
• Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.
• 10 to 20 million smokers will die from tobacco-related illness.
• It is the leading cause of lung cancer.
• It causes deadly cancers.
• It can lead to heart disease, stroke, and emphysema.
• Smokers are at higher risk of respiratory problems.
• Pregnant smokers endanger their baby’s health.

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