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Anne Mitchell

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posted 11/16/2009, comment (1)

The Great American Smokeout Challenge on Nov. 19th: Quit smoking for 24 hours

The Great American Smokeout was started by the American Cancer Society in 1977. It is held on the third Thursday in November each year. This year, the big day falls on November 19th.The challenge is for smokers to quit for 24 hours. The hope is that if you can make it without a cigarette for 24 hours, then maybe you can make it for another 24... Read more Chevron

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kro234

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posted 09/18/2009, comments (0)

Quit smoking and poetically diagnosed

Am newly diagnosed, just today, actually. Is moderate smoking induced COPD a death sentence? Where is the best online forum for discussing the disease with other people (this format kind of stinks and In could really use some support).

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randilynne

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posted 09/07/2009, comments (0)

still crazy after all these....months

it's been 18 months since i quit smoking. i think. i stopped counting early on because i wanted to think like a non smoker, not an ex-smoker (not that's there's anything wrong with that) and it hasn't really been all that difficult. or, i should say hadn't been. my father died august 2nd. from prostate cancer. he was... Read more Chevron

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Jim Christopher

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posted 07/15/2009, comments (0)

Mortality Focus: Cigarettes Have Consequences

When icons die -- especially one after the other, e.g., Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, and the legendary Michael Jackson -- we, at least momentarily, tend to focus on our own mortality. Life in progress or finite follies as I sometimes call it, can include powerful addictive disorders. When celebrities croak, we may feel more vulnerable than usual and... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/22/2009, comment (1)

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There is only one way to quit anything. While I'm at it...shame on the capitalists who exploit people who are attempting to quit. You know who you are and be assured that you will have a place in the underworld in a room filled with second hand smoke.

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