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Categories
- Cessation Aids (3)
- Materials for Health Professionals (15)
- News (1)
- Products and Services (30)
- Research (5)
- Self Help Materials (19)
Links
NASA - Smoking Cessation
http://ohp.nasa.gov/topics/smoking/
NASA's occupational health program pulls together a lot of resources on quitting.
Nicotine Addiction
http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/Newsletter/FPN_3_39.html
Treatment and prevention information for healthcare professionals and the public.
Oregon Tobacco Quit Line
http://www.oregonquitline.org/
A free telephone service available to all Oregon residents who want to stop using tobacco.
PhlexTeck's Quit Smoking Support and Information
Personal website; information and support for people who want to stop smoking.
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.
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.
Quit Smoking - QuitWA
Assistance for quitting smoking, including reasons to quit, how to quit, and staying a non-smoker. Government of Western Australia.
Quit123
Costs and damage of smoking; TV ads from UK.
Quit4 Life
Interactive web presentation explores how different people quit. In English and French languages.
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.
QuitNet
Providing tools, information, and support, including message boards, chat rooms, interactive questionnaires, and personalized quitting suggestions.
Smoke-Free Virginia
http://www.smokefreevirginia.org
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.
Smoke-Free Zone
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/nosmoke/index.htm
Environmental and health reasons to quit smoking, especially for college students, provided by a concerned professor.
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.
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.
Smoking - Why Is It So Hard to Quit?
http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.798/healthissue_detail.asp
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
http://www.smoking-cessation.org
Resource center for aspiring quitters. Offers facts about nicotine addiction, profiles of medications that can reduce the urge to smoke, and a free newsletter.
Smoking Cessation by About.com
Provides tips, articles, and success stories.
Smoking Cessation Consumer Tools Kit
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/
Although primarily aimed at helping doctors educate patients, much of the material is helpful to anyone who wants to quit smoking.
Smoking Cessation Programs in Rhode Island
http://www.ricancercouncil.org/resources/smoking.php
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.
Smoking Cessation, Quality of Life, and Older Persons
http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco/cessation.htm
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.
Smoking: A Quitter's Tale
http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/19980707bquit4.asp
The power of suggestion, plus $39 and a little willpower, help our intrepid reporter kick the habit.
Smoking: Don't give up giving up
http://www.givingupsmoking.co.uk/
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.
Soyouwanna Quit Smoking?
http://soyouwanna.com/site/syws/quit/quit.html
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.


