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October 2008

Tobacco Cessation – Best practices & programs for quitting tobacco (PDF)

There are about 47 million smokers in the United States (about ¼ of the population) – most say they would like to quit, but only about 5 percent manage to do so each year. Quitting smoking, chewing tobacco, snuff, or any other type of tobacco product is hard. That’s because nicotine (a drug found naturally in tobacco products) is highly addictive – as addictive as heroin or cocaine. “Smoking is the nation’s leading preventable cause of death. It significantly increases the risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. In fact, more than half of all smoking-related deaths in America each year are from heart disease, stroke, or other cardiovascular diseases.”
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