Straight from the Surgeon General comes some great quitting smoking tips! The Surgeon Generals site on smoking cessation includes comprehensive and up to date materials on how you can work towards quitting smoking.

If you’re serious about quitting smoking we encourage you to browse the materials on their site and then contact us. We can help you on your path to a healthier lifestyle.

Tobacco Cessation—You Can Quit Smoking Now!

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From the CAMH site we bring you the first five of their 10 Tips To Quit Smoking!

1. Make your car, home and office completely smoke free.  Write down the pros and cons of smoking for your health, your family, your social life, your finances and your mental health.
2. Smoke only ½ the cigarette or change to a brand that you do not like.
3. Delay the time between each cigarette.  Only smoke the cigarettes you “must have” and see if you can drop the rest.
4. Chew gum, sugar free candies or have a low fat low sugar snack when having a craving.
5. Identify your triggers; find out which activities you link with smoking such as dealing with boredom, hunger, drinking alcohol or coffee. avoid these triggers and others such as smoking environments.

For the remaining five tips we encourage you to visit the CAMH article 10 Tips To Quit Smoking.

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Richard Madan recently decided to try quitting smoking again. This time he’s trying it with the aide of the Quick Stop Solution. To see Richards first post about it and his treatment experience, read his blog post Quitting Smoking: The First Few Days.

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We’ve recently been featured on City News! Follow this link to view the full story:

Better Living Through Lasers: Company Promises An End To Smoking

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TORONTO – May 1, 2008 …. Canadian Laser and Pain Therapy (CLPT) Canada’s first low intensity laser therapy (LILT) pain and stop smoking solution clinic, today announced that their QUICK STOP SOLUTION™, currently empowering patients to break free of smoking at their Burlington and Stoney Creek locations, has now expanded with two downtown Toronto clinics.

The clinics, located in the downtown Toronto location of St. Clair/Yonge and midtown location of Bloor/Christie, are the first Canadian licensees to offer the QUICK STOP SOLUTION™, with many more locations set to open across the country.

Using a painless laser light, the QUICK STOP SOLUTION™ stimulates acupuncture points on the ear, hand and knee to eliminate nicotine cravings in chronic smokers and help reset their metabolism to minimize the unpleasant symptoms of withdrawal. Low intensity laser (LILT) treatment is FDA approved in the United States to treat a variety of chronic pain conditions including osteoarthritis, lower back pain (caused by inflammation), rotator cuff injuries, plantar fasciitis etc. The program is conducted under strict FDA guidelines and CLPT reports patient results on a monthly basis.

“Thousands of Canadians will struggle to quit smoking this summer. We can make it significantly easier by offering a painless, effective and proven technology to curb smoking cravings,” said Dr. Paul Ziemer, President and CEO of Canadian Laser and Pain Therapy. “We’ve seen consistent success rates of 85-95 percent and many patients require only 2 QUICK STOP SOLUTION™ sessions to break free of their habit, regardless of how many years they have been light or chronic smokers.”

At a cost of $395, the QUICK STOP SOLUTION™ is partially covered by many employee health plans.

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The World Health Organization has released a new report on global tobacco control efforts.

“…not a single country fully implements all key tobacco control measures, and outlined an approach that governments can adopt to prevent tens of millions of premature deaths by the middle of this century.”

In this report the WHO finds that only 5% of the worlds population lives in a country which fully protect their population with any one of the key measures that reduce smoking rates. These statistics are quite surprising. To find out more read the news release on the WHO site.

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