smoking cessation | smoking cessation
Aug.31.2012
The standard smoking cessation quit-date timeline is 1-2 weeks. Here’s an example of this kind of blitzkrieg quit-date advice from a 2003 American Cancer Society publication, “Kicking Butts”: “Pick a quit date – about seven to fourteen days from now.” (p. 88).
7 to 14 days? Really?!...
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Aug.28.2012
As a smoker, you probably haven’t thought of yourself as a health-nut, but, in a way, you are. If you are not a smoker, surely, you haven't thought of smokers as health-nuts. And yet an argument can be made that a smoker is a health-nut.
(If you are a smoker, you are probably...
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Apr.01.2012
Sometimes clients I work with just don't want to quit smoking. Or they are not yet ready to quit. That's common and normal. But they always seem to be ready to cut back a bit, mostly for health reasons. This kind of cutting back or harm reduction makes sense. It’s a...
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Jan.08.2012
The antismoking crusade was ready to grasp anything that could demonize smoking, and in 1988 the US Surgeon General declared on his own authority that smoking was an enslaving addiction and that nicotine was a drug of abuse equal to crack cocaine. On its face the statement was and is...
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Jan.19.2009
I didn't even know it at the time that it would be my last, but it was.
I had one of the worst colds in my life for 5 days and couldn't smoke. Normally I wouldn't let anything get in the way of me smoking, even if I was sick. So for me not to smoke for 5 days---let me just say my cold was bad!
But...
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