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Freedom from Smoking Starts Now

1. Introduction

More and more people are now becoming aware of the health risks of smoking.

This has made the need to find efficient smoking cessation plans more imperative than ever.

There is nothing as important to stopping smoking than a clear-cut decision to quit. Regardless of the reasons you had for doing so, if you have already made the vital decision to quit smoking then well done to you! If you haven’t made a decision or have doubts that you can really do it, arm yourself with the dry facts in this book and then talk yourself into it. Convince yourself that you really do need to stop the habit. Deep down you know it is the right course of action.

Those who do decide to be non-smokers will be a part of millions of health-conscious people who have given up tobacco and have decided to stick to this new lifestyle change forever. They will live longer and have a better quality of life.

Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the United States.

Cigarettes kill more people in this country than do the car accidents, AIDS, alcohol, suicide, homicide, and illicit drugs all taken together. Sadly, many people who have become aware of the reasons to quit smoking and made up their mind, did so too late and are left with some permanent damage such as emphysema.

Reports suggest that around 46.2 million people in the US currently smoke.

This is 22.8% of the entire adult population - almost one in every four people.

If they continue to smoke, they are likely to become a victim of the atrocious 5.