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Quitting

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• Top: Health: Consumer Support Groups: Smoking Cessation
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Quitting Links

• QuitNet Helps smokers kick their nicotine addiction, providing tools, information, and support for people quitting smoking, including message boards, chat rooms, interactive questionaires, and personalized quitting suggestions.
  
• Smoking Cessation by About.com Find help you need to kick the habit and stay smoke-free. Fight your nicotine addiction, and keep your hands busy after quitting.
  
  
• 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.
  
• Great American Smokeout "The event that has helped millions of Americans quit smoking. If you can quit for one day, you're that much closer for quitting for good."
  
• Smoke Free International Free program with demonstrated high success rate offers information, support, and programs.
  
• Smoking and Quitting On-line support network at medbroadcast.com. Also articles and tools include detailed plans for quitting, myths around quitting, the withdrawal experience, and medications.
  
• TryToStop.org Lots of information -- quitting obstacles, social situations, urges, weight control, withdrawal, special section for women and girls, getting support, finding help, factsheets, and more.
  
• Understanding Nicotine Addiction & Tobacco Habits Quitting support; articles on nicotine addiction and tobacco.
  
• drkoop.com: Tackling Tobacco Library covering all aspects: tobacco pharmacology; tobacco habit and dependency; preparing for quitting success; ways to quit; recruiting your support system; different methods of quitting; staying quit; tackling cravings and relapse; managing your feelings; managing your stress; managing your diet and weight; improving your health; helping someone quit or reduce.
  
• QuitSmokingSupport.com Bulletin Board Active and supportive quitting smoking bulletin board.
  
• Help for Tobacco Addiction Effects, quitting info, Q&A, secondhand smoke. "If Tobacco does not kill you it makes your life a living hell."
  
• QuitsmokingMD Physician supervised interactive smoking cessation programs, smoking news and information. "We are dedicated to help you quit smoking forever."
  
• Quit Smoking Network Interactive smoking cessation program that can be tailored to your specific needs. Peer support, ask an expert, chat, forum. Developed by Oregon Research Institute, funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute. You are asked to provide information about yourself, which also helps to tailor the program.
  
• Free Web-based Smoking Cessation Study A web-based intervention and clinical trial to help people quit smoking, developed by researchers at the University of California.
  
• Smoking: A quitter's tale The power of suggestion, plus $39 and a little willpower, help our intrepid reporter kick the habit.
  
• What Happens When You Stop Smoking ASH-UK factsheet gives concise summary of what to expect.
  
• Cessation Help from Arizona's Tobacco Program.
  
• Quitinic.com: News and Resources for Quitting Smoking Independent forum to help people learn about the effects of cigarette smoking, provides news, commentary, humor, spiritual insight, services, referrals, and support.
  
• Rush North Shore Medical Center's Stop Smoking Clinic Lots of self-help material for smoking cessation and reinforcement materials for ex-smokers on relapse prevention. Check under link of Reinforcement Materials. Site and material developed by Joel Spitzer.
  
• Ex-Smokers A community for ex-smokers around the world, and a valuable resource for people wishing to become one. Includes a discussion room and links.
  
• Committed Quitters Designed to work along with your patch or gum to help you quit smoking for good. Sponsored by the patch/gum manufacturer.
  
• The Stop Smoking -Support Bulletin Board System Lots of messages from people who have been there and people who are quitting right now. Useful stuff, good support.
  
• PhlexTeck's Quit Smoking Support and Information Personal website; information and support for people who want to stop smoking.
  
• Smoking cessation - What works? UK health site has evidence of effective interventions collated in a guide.
  
• Teen Smoking Cessation Program The Teen Health Center at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati offers the city's first smoking cessation program specifically for teens.
  
• Smoking Cessation Consumer Tools Kit Although primarily aimed at helping doctors educate patients, mcuh of the material is helpful to anyone who wants to quit smoking.
  
• DrKoop.com: Tackling Tobacco Doctor Koop has put together some great quitting resources: preparing to reduce or quit, ways to withdraw from nicotine, tackling cravings and relapse, managing your feelings, stress, diet, weight, and helping someone else reduce or quit.
  
• Feel Better Quit Smoking Smoking spreads disease and death but quitting is tough. This site helps smokers to kick the habit by providing information and techniques.
  
• What's The Best Way to Give Up Smoking? Cancer Society of New Zealand pamphlet looks at various methods and provides consumer warnings. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  
• The No Smoke Cafe The No Smoke Cafe is a laid back gathering place for folks who want to quit smoking or using tobacco and those who've already quit. The Cafe holds many resources and aids to quitting, but is dedicated to quitters helping each other and learning to enjoy life without smoking.
  
• Tips on How to Quit Smoking TobaccoFree offers smoking cessation tips and resources such as research results for those who want help to quit cigarette smoking or are battling with nicotine addiction.
  
• Bud Ellis's Home Page A web page in the memory of Bud Ellis who died August 23, 1998. Bud speaks simply and plainly about his life, as he was nearing its end. Also good resources on quitting.
  
• Smoking Cessation Programs in Rhode Island 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.
  
• Aviation Medicine: Smoking Cessation/Tobacco Summary of effects of tobacco, with emphasis on physiologic effects related to flying; quitting info, which emphasis on smoking cessation for pilots.
  
• Getting Quit "It is indeed the hardest thing many people (including myself) have done...however it can be done" Why quit; why it's so hard; besides the addiction to nicotine, what keeps me smoking? methods of quitting; products; what if I relapse; secondhand smoke.
  
• Smoke-Free Virginia 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.
  
• Quitting Tutorials Collection of tutorials on smoking and quitting.
  
• A Guide to Smoking Cessation Gor people wanting to quit smoking, for physicians and students who want to help their patients or just want to gain more knowledge.
  
• WebMD - Smoking Cessation: No Butts About It! 8 week stop-smoking program with online discussion from participants.
  
• QuitSmokingSupport Resources to help you to quit smoking in a highly interactive site.
  
• Smoking Cessation, Quality of Life, and Older Pesons 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.
  
• Soyouwanna quit smoking? 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.
  
• Joe Chemo: A Camel Who Wishes He'd Never Smoked Test your tobacco IQ, get a Smoke-o-Scope, tips on quitting and contact details.
  
• TalkingStick.net TalkingStick.net documents one woman's profound experience quitting smoking.
  
• Lifesaver: UK site on quitting A website designed to offer the support, advice, and motivation you may need to stop smoking for life.
  
• NASA - Smoking Cessation NASA's occupational health program pulls together a lot of resources on quitting.
  
• Interactive Life Zone Tips for quitting smoking. Information on the effects of smoking.
  
• Cold Turkey Quit Smoking Support Group The Internet's only 100% nicotine free "Cold Turkey" quit smoking support group. Personal stories, message board, chat rooms, quitting tips and articles. "Don't think of quitting as giving up cigarettes, see it as freeing yourself from a substance that was slowly crippling you and, if given the opportunity, will eventually kill you."
  
• Arizona Smokers' Helpline Offers research-based toll-free telephone outreach and support service to Arizona residents who are trying to quit tobacco and remain tobacco-free. Includes information on the effects of using tobacco and online email help from a certified counselor.
  
• Quit Smokeless Organization When you're ready to quit, find the resources here that you need to kick the can. Info and support from people who've been there.
  
• Do You Smoke? Do You Want to Quit? Improving your chances for success; winning tips from successful quitters; info on multiple quit attempts; pregnancy and smoking; smokers facing surgery.
  
• quitsmokinguk.com - FOR quitting smokers BY quitting smokers Vibrant UK community where you can get support, up-to-date advice and even have a bit of a laugh! Includes games zone, discussion groups, personal ads, chat and more...
  
• Nicotine Anonymous home page "Nicotine Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women helping each other to live our lives free of nicotine. We share our experience, strength and hope with each other so that we may be free from this powerful addiction. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using nicotine."
  
• Nicotine Cessation and Relapse Prevention A cognitive behavioral model of nicotine addiction and its treatment. Site provides specific tactics that produce good long-term outcome. Also sells tapes.
  
• WellnessWeb Smoker's Clinic Good information for smokers, quitting, or ex-smokers.
  
• Anti Smoking Links A collection of quit smoking links and resources.
  
• Quit Smoking from HeliosHealth.com A complete guide to Smoking Cessation from HeliosHealth.com with clinically reviewed information, animations, news and discussion. Topics include, quitting, recovery, weight gain and more. Interesting quiz on "why do you smoke".
  
• ACS: Quitting Smoking Overview from the American Cancer Society, covering: why is it so hard to quit? Why quit? The nicotine patch and gum, and the nasal spray and inhaler; zyban; other methods of quitting; a word about success rates; how to quit; dealing with withdrawal; staying quit; what to look for in a stop-smoking group or class; weight gain; stress; Q&A.
  
• FIND Help The Foundation for Innovations in Nicotine Dependence (FIND). A resource to physicians, smokers, and anyone interested in current smoking cessation methods and medications.
  
• Katlyn's Butt-head Page "I am 11 years old and my mother has emphysema from smoking. Please listen to me - what it's like to have a sick Mom". A powerful story. A lot of tobacco's victims don't even smoke.
  
• Smokefree New Zealand "Designed by kiwis for kiwis", free program includes information, step-by-step instruction, and support.
  
• WannaLearn.com: Stop Smoking Collection of links to quit-smoking sites.
  
• Smoker's Hall of Shame Support, information, and links to help smokers quit. Lots of animations.
  
• Ash-UK: Quitting Smoking Support for smokers who want to give up or cut down. Most the 10 million smokers in the UK like to stop smoking. You are not alone. Many in the UK have given up. Of those that call our helpline, the majority either give up completely or cut down.
  
• Stop Smoking Clinic: Reinforcement letters Over 100 reinforcement letters on quitting, including medical, psychological, social, and economic implications of smoking. Particularly strong on relapse prevention. Sponsorted by Rush North Shore Medical Center's Good Health Program.
  
• The California Smokers' Helpline Tired of smoking? Well then check this out. A website designed to help you kick the habit, all free of charge.
  
• Dixie's Quit Smoking Page A place for people to find links to help themselves because for everyone it is a personal battle. Hopefully making a few friends along the way. It is a hard and sometimes painful battle. It can be done.
  
• OncoLink: NCI Quitting Clearing the Air: How to Quit Smoking...and Quit for Keeps. From National Cancer Institute.
  
• 4QuitSmoking Collection of links from 4Anything.com.
  
• The JUST4U Stop Smoking -Support Bulletin Board System Lots of messages from people who have been there and people who are quitting right now. Useful stuff, good support.
  
• Quit4 Life Interactive web presentation explores how different people quit. In English and French languages.
  
• Dr. Bob's Quit Smoking Page Helpful facts and tips on how and why to quit smoking prepared by Dr. Bob, a physician. Well organized site with information on why you smoke, different methods of quitting, and statistics on the costs of smoking.
  
• Greetsomeone.com - The Great American Smokeout Cards Send great american smokeout virtual cards. What they'll do with your email address, they don't say. No privacy policy is posted at the site.
  
• Smoking: Don't give up giving up 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.
  
• Diary of a Non-Smoker One person's quitting diary, now in progress.
  
• Unhooked Dedicated to helping people break the smoking habit. There is a chat site, bulletin board, as well as links to resources for help in breaking the habit. Fill out the form to find out how much nicotine you are getting in a day.
  
• Alt.Support.Stop-Smoking Usenet Newsgroup Web Site & Archive Features a FAQ, quitting tips, an archive of past newsgroup articles with information to help break the habit of smoking. Includes links to other sites.
  
• Nicotine Addiction Treatment and prevention information for healthcare professionals and the public.
  
• Quit Smoking Links Quit smoking now! We've got the resources to help you succeed. You really can quit. Come check us out. What have you got to lose, but your habit?
  
• 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.
  
• Arizona Cessation Training and Evaluation Online Quit information, resources, and services.
  
• Smoking and hypertension: Lifeclinic.com Learn how to stop smoking and reduce your hypertension. Quitting strategies and how to quit smoking for good.
  
• media force: smoke home Info and resources for friends and families of smokers who want them to quit. Includes info, e-mail cards you can send, plans, and some imaginative slogans.
  
• Quit Smoking Help Advice and tips from person who quit.
  
• Thinking about Stopping Mayo Clinic article outlines criteria for nicotine dependence.
  
• Blair's Quitting Smoking Bulletin Board Huge bulletin board on the subject of smoking cessation.
  
• Quitting Info from Quit Victoria: deciding to quit; getting ready to quit; staying a non-smoker; coping with setbacks; helping others quit.
  
• Smoking Cessation Resources in New York City Compilation of agencies, organizations, phone numbers, where to call, who to call, where to go, when groups meet.
  
• American Lung Association's Tobacco Information. Features information from the ALA about smoking, Freedom From Smoking program, and tips of quitting the habit.
  
• California Smokers' Helpline A free quitting resource, including self-help materials, local program referral listings, and one-on-one counseling, available to anyone in California. Specialized services for teens, pregnant women and tobacco chewers.
  
• Cigarette advertising to counter New year's Resolutions? Research study looks at whether there are more cigarette ads in January and February, and why.
  
• Smoking Cessation Research Program If you are a smoker in the greater-Boston area, who is interested in quitting, visit our site and learn more about free smoking cessation treatment studies.
  
• Snap: Smoking Cessation Center Snap's resource center compares and contrasts methods of quitting.
  
• Arizona Tobacco Education and Prevention Program Information on statewide projects, youth tobacco use, links to cessation and prevention resources.
  
• ACS: Tobacco & Cancer: Quitting Tips Tips on quitting from the American Cancer Society.
  
• quit.org Cost of smoking, just in money paid for product; doesn't include health care costs, lost productivity, fires, cleanup, or secondhand smoke costs.
  
• Hospital Ipoh Quit Clinic Free quit-smoking education and counselling.
  
• The Tobacco BBS Includes mighty resources for smokers looking to quit.
  
• The Sober Alcoholic's Stop Smoking Support Page Lots of info on the subject, extensively footnoted. "Most alcoholics or drug addicts have several addictions, and smoking is the most common other addiction by far. Many alcoholics in recovery do not realize that their cigarette smoking is probably an even greater threat to their health and survival than their drinking was. Did you know that more alcoholics die of diseases related to smoking than of diseases related to drinking?"
  
• Freedom From Tobacco - Quit Smoking Now MSN community, basically a message board on the subject. Topics include: advice for newbies, cravings and urges, depression, hell week, humor, quitting aids, web sites, weight gain, planning to quit.
  
• Ex-Smokers are Awesome Motivational site by an ex-smoker gives ex-smokers reasons to avoid "just one drag".
  
• STOP! Magazine A magazine devoted exclusively to quitting smoking.
  
• Tobacco Kills A woman tells her own story: smoking caused her throat cancer and she is now a laryngectomee.
  
• Smoking - Why Is It So Hard to Quit? Science article from American Council on Science and Health offers overview and a little advice.
  
• Accenthealth.com: Quit Smoking - A Guide Do you want to quit smoking? Don't let stories of weight gain, mood swings and cravings leave you passive or indecisive. It's never too late to kick the habit with tips from this guide.
  
• Can You Quit Smoking? Personal tale on quitting.
  
• i-quit-smoking.com Interesting wrinkle: provides a web-based email address yourname@i-quit-smoking.com in connection with their quitsmoking.com bulletin board. Don't look here for critical evaluation of the products they sell. But reasonable free section of advice and support.