Directory: Health: Addictions: Substance Abuse: Tobacco: Quitting (160)
Smoking Cessation by About.com - Provides tips, articles, and success stories.Quit Now - The National Tobacco Campaign - Australian National Tobacco Campaign offers a one-stop-shop with all the information you need on the campaign and how to get information on quitting.
Bud Ellis's Home Page - A web page in the memory of Bud Ellis who died August 23, 1998. Bud speaks simply and plainly about his life, as he was nearing its end. Also good resources on quitting.
Alt.Support.Stop-Smoking Usenet Newsgroup Web Site & Archive - Features a FAQ, quitting tips, an archive of past newsgroup articles with information to help break the habit of smoking. Includes links to other sites.
Dr. Bob's Quit Smoking Page - Helpful facts and tips on how and why to quit smoking prepared by Dr. Bob, a physician. Well organized site with information on why you smoke, different methods of quitting, and statistics on the costs of smoking.
Stop Smoking Clinic: Reinforcement letters - Over 100 reinforcement letters on quitting, including medical, psychological, social, and economic implications of smoking. Particularly strong on relapse prevention. Sponsorted by Rush North Shore Medical Center's Good Health Program.
Ex-Smokers - A community for ex-smokers around the world, and a valuable resource for people wishing to become one. Includes a discussion room and links.
NASA - Smoking Cessation - NASA's occupational health program pulls together a lot of resources on quitting.
Quit4 Life - Interactive web presentation explores how different people quit. In English and French languages.
Control Your Weight As You Quit Smoking - Information and resources on controlling weight gain while you quit smoking.
Smoking Cessation - Resource center for aspiring quitters. Offers facts about nicotine addiction, profiles of medications that can reduce the urge to smoke, and a free newsletter.
Committed Quitters - Designed to work along with your patch or gum to help you quit smoking for good. Sponsored by the patch/gum manufacturer.
The California Smokers' Helpline - A telephone program designed to help people kick the habit. Free of charge.
TalkingStick.net - TalkingStick.net documents one woman's profound experience quitting smoking.
What Happens When You Stop Smoking - ASH-UK factsheet gives concise summary of what to expect.
Tales From the Quit - A collection of essays, stories, rambles, and rants written during the author's first year of freedom from smoking. Offers quit tips, insight, humor, and hope.
Rush North Shore Medical Center's Stop Smoking Clinic - Lots of self-help material for smoking cessation and reinforcement materials for ex-smokers on relapse prevention. Check under link of Reinforcement Materials. Site and material developed by Joel Spitzer.
Arizona Smokers' Helpline - Offers research-based toll-free telephone outreach and support service to Arizona residents who are trying to quit tobacco and remain tobacco-free. Includes information on the effects of using tobacco and online email help from a certified counselor.
Interactive Life Zone - Tips for quitting smoking. Information on the effects of smoking.
Smoking: A Quitter's Tale - The power of suggestion, plus $39 and a little willpower, help our intrepid reporter kick the habit.
Smoke-Free Zone - Environmental and health reasons to quit smoking, especially for college students, provided by a concerned professor.
Smoke-Free Virginia - Guide to smoking cessation resources in Virginia, quit plan tips and links to related sites to help you stop smoking or using tobacco and gain freedom from nicotine addiction.
QuitBuddies -- Your AS3 Pals! - An album of faces to go with some of the names you know from the AS3 newsgroup, as well as a few quitting-related tips and links, and a lot of silliness and diversion.
Smoking Cessation, Quality of Life, and Older Persons - Information on and access to materials concerning smoking cessation, the effects of smoking cessation on the health of older persons, and the value of healthy lifestyles for older persons.
Tobacco Cessation Guidelines - Materials for consumers and clinicians from the Surgeon General including a 5-day plan to get ready, tips for the first week, five common myths about quitting; most materials provided in English and Spanish.
My Fight for My Life - A personal, health related reason to quitting smoking. Philosophy based on the Serenity Prayer.
Oregon Tobacco Quit Line - A free telephone service available to all Oregon residents who want to stop using tobacco.
Smokenders Australia website - Instructional and group program; claims 92% success rate, but doesn't mention how or when that number was arrived at. The usual testimonials.
Quit.org - Quitting information and resources, education on tobacco, memorials, and news.
Dr. Jeff's Quit Commit Program - Aims to help people of all ages to quit smoking cigarettes or stop using other forms of tobacco. Tools, resources, information, links and support for people to kick the habit.
I-quit-smoking.com - Interesting wrinkle: provides a web-based email address yourname@i-quit-smoking.com in connection with their quitsmoking.com bulletin board. Don't look here for critical evaluation of the products they sell. But reasonable free section of advice and support.
Quit Smoking Links - Resources to help you succeed.
American Cancer Society: Quitting Tips - Information on how to stop smoking or quit using smokeless tobacco, options for help, and tips for after quitting.
Help for Tobacco Addiction - Effects, quitting information, QandA, secondhand smoke. "If Tobacco does not kill you it makes your life a living hell."
The Sober Alcoholic's Stop Smoking Support Page - Lots of information on the subject, extensively footnoted. "Most alcoholics or drug addicts have several addictions, and smoking is the most common other addiction by far. Many alcoholics in recovery do not realize that their cigarette smoking is probably an even greater threat to their health and survival than their drinking was. Did you know that more alcoholics die of diseases related to smoking than of diseases related to drinking?"
Joe Chemo: A Camel Who Wishes He'd Never Smoked - Test your tobacco IQ, get a Smoke-o-Scope, tips on quitting and contact details.
TryToStop.org - Scientific information, peer support; covers quitting obstacles, social situations, urges, weight control, withdrawal, special section for women and girls, getting support, finding help, and factsheets.
WebMD - Smoking Cessation: No Butts About It! - 8 week stop-smoking program with online discussion from participants.
Quit Smokeless Organization - When you're ready to quit, find the resources here that you need to kick the can. Information and support from people who've been there.
Getting Quit - "It is indeed the hardest thing many people (including myself) have done...however it can be done" Why quit; why it's so hard; besides the addiction to nicotine, what keeps me smoking? methods of quitting; products; what if I relapse; secondhand smoke.
Smoker's Hall of Shame - Support, information, and links to help smokers quit. Lots of animations.
Free Web-based Smoking Cessation Study - A web-based intervention and clinical trial to help people quit smoking, developed by researchers at the University of California.
Smoking Cessation Consumer Tools Kit - Although primarily aimed at helping doctors educate patients, mcuh of the material is helpful to anyone who wants to quit smoking.
National Jewish Medical and Research Center - Offers a free pamphlet on quitting smoking.
Freedom From Tobacco Network - Information about quitting and quitting aids written by people who have successfully quit using tobacco products.
Soyouwanna Quit Smoking? - Reviews zyban; nicotine patches, gums, and inhalers; tapering off; "cold turkey"; acupuncture; lasers; hypnosis. Concludes with advice on how to prepare yourself emotionally for quitting.
Hospital Ipoh Quit Clinic - Free quit-smoking education and counselling.
Stopping Smoking: ASH's 15 Tips - From ASH-UK. Support and encouragement, especially for smokers in the UK who'd like to quit.
Smoking: Don't give up giving up - Official site produced by the NHS Health Education Authority. Useful advice on how to give up and you can ask for regular supportive e-mails.
Be a Quitter...Just This Once! - Oklahoma City VA Medical Center presentation on readiness to quit smoking. Veterans and otheres can learn the best way to become a quitter of tobacco use.
Smoke-Free Families: Know a Pregnant Smoker? - Benefits of quitting for you and your baby, resources that will help you quit smoking and stay quit, and how to contact Smoke-Free Families.
PhlexTeck's Quit Smoking Support and Information - Personal website; information and support for people who want to stop smoking.
Circle of Friends - Organization helping people break their addiction to tobacco. Statistics, tips for quitting, and a bulletin board for sharing stories.
WebMD Smoking Cessation Center - Advice, articles, and information on successful quit smoking techniques.
Tobacco-Free Ways: Pima County's Tobacco Education and Prevention Program - Oregon based group offers quit tips, programs, discounts, and advice.
The Time Is Right - Support and practical information on stopping smoking.
British Heart Foundation Smoking Microsite - "Give up before you clog up" campaign provides information about the damage caused by smoking whilst giving advice and guidance on methods for stopping smoking.
QuitNet - Helps smokers kick their nicotine addiction, providing tools, information, and support for people quitting smoking, including message boards, chat rooms, interactive questionnaires, and personalized quitting suggestions.
Smokersline.ca - Yukon Tobacco Reduction Strategy - Every year, Yukoners just like you quit smoking. Each success is built on a unique combination of planning, desire, motivation, strategy, support and willpower.
mindspa - London quit-smoking clinics use NLP and hypnosis.
Nicotine Addiction - Treatment and prevention information for healthcare professionals and the public.
Quit Smoking - QuitWA - Assistance for quitting smoking, including reasons to quit, how to quit, and staying a non-smoker. Government of Western Australia.
Smoking - Why Is It So Hard to Quit? - Article by David Krogh notes nicotine's ability both to increase mental concentration and to control stress, with suggestions for coping with addiction. From American Council on Science and Health.
Smoking Cessation Programs in Rhode Island - Listing of over a dozen smoking cessation programs in Rhode Island using a variety of proven methods to help people of all ages quit smoking.
MEDLINEplus: Smoking Cessation - Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Assistance for Smokers in Dorset who want to Quit - SmokeStop offers advice and assistance to smokers in North and South West Dorset who want to quit.
Canadian Cancer Society: For Smokers Who Don't Want to Quit - What's not here: advice on how to quit; lectures about how to quit; ways to cut back. What is here: how to deal with people who nag you to quit; understanding personal reasons for smoking; some facts about quitting.
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