The Smoking Cessation Program

Florida Hospital has put the power to stop smoking right in your hands, with Break the Chain—a comprehensive stop-smoking program customized to work with your individual needs. This one-of-a kind program incorporates some of the country's most aggressive treatment options—options that you and a smoking cessation specialist will go over together. You can decide what will work best for your individual lifestyle needs.

This program will help you to:

• Understand the addictive power of nicotine
• Learn about various medication and non-medication treatments
• Learn and apply healthy lifestyle principles
• Practice planning and role-playing techniques for dealing with "smoking triggers"
• Receive group or individual support
• Learn relaxation and visualization techniques
• Celebrate the benefits of a smoke-free life

This program is about choices—your choice and your life.
What are you waiting for?
Call now to enroll in a class in the Orlando area--407/303-4450 ext. 5550

Facts on Smoking

Did You Know?

• Cigarette smoking caused over 4000,000 deaths this past year, more than auto accidents, murder and AIDS combined! No other single agent kills more Americans than tobacco. However, despite these tragic statistics, studies from the last three decades have shown that when people stop smoking their risk of dying from a tobacco-related disease decreases significantly!
  
  
• Smoking is the most significant and potent risk factor for coronary heart disease. In fact, if you smoke, your risk of dying from a heart attack is at least 2-4 times that of a person who has never smoked. But the good news is that the risk of a heart attack drops by almost a third after the first year of quitting smoking and reaches the level of persons who have never smoked by the third or fourth year.
  
  
• The risk of stroke in smokers who smoke over a pack per day can be as high as 4 times those who never smoked and yet after quitting the risk drops substantially and continues to drop for 5 years!
  
  
• Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in this country and 80-90% of all lung cancers are directly attributable to cigarette smoking. Since 1986, lung cancer has exceeded breast cancer as the most common cause of cancer death among women. It has been the leading cause of cancer deaths in men for decades. But here is the good news; after quitting smoking the risk of lung cancer starts dropping and continues to drop for 15 years. After about 15 years of not smoking, the risk of death from lung cancer is reduced 80-90% compared with those who continue to smoke. That is truly good news!
  
  
• Chronic lung disease, or emphysema as it is commonly called, is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States accounting for more than 100,000 deaths each year and the death rate from emphysema has more than tripled since 1970. Why? One cause: cigarette smoking. Death and serious disability from emphysema occur almost exclusively in smokers. The good news about quitting smoking and emphysema come from two very large studies that were done on smokers.

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