We know that you are willing to put your best effort into quitting smoking, therefore we believe that you deserve our best effort. We are acutely aware that if we do not succeed in helping you quit smoking with our course, it will be at least 3-5 years on average until you try again! Therefore, we are committed to help you through the process. You will do it! You will gain back your self respect and conquer this poisonous habit! You may be surprised that it is easier than you think!

As a lung doctor, I was shocked when I came to this realization. I have told hundreds of patients that they have severe emphysema and that despite the billions of dollars of medical research that have gone into developing emphysema drugs THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SLOW DOWN THE RATE OF EMPHYSEMA IS STOPPING SMOKING.

Despite this, they would continue to smoke. Even some of the fortunate few of my lung cancer patients who were cured of cancer would continue to smoke. I have had several emphysema patients who were on oxygen set their nose on fire while smoking. We never learned how to deal with this type of irrational behavior in medical school. It took me many years to realize that scare tactics (or reality) does not make people quit smoking. Most people believe that these bad things happen to other people. It is part of the smokers powerful denial. It is like they are playing Russian roulette. They believe there is one bullet and one thousand empty chambers. In reality there is one bullet and only two empty chambers. Yes, that is right, out of every three smokers, one will die prematurely of a smoking related death. The good news is that for every 3 people that we can get to stop smoking, we will save one life!!

Keep this little fact in the back of your head, because once you are a permanent non smoker you will serve as a role model for your friends that still smoke. We encourage you to help them in their first few weeks as non smokers. Remember, out of every three people that you get to quit smoking, you will save one of their lives.