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The Quit Smoking Report Ezine |
The Quit Smoking Report 12/07/99
Published on the first and third Tuesday of each month
Brought to you by QuitSmoking.com - The Quit Smoking Company
http://www.quitsmoking.com
In this issue:
<> Letter from the Editor
<> Top 10 List
<> Featured Product: The Smoker's Guide to Vitamins and Health
<> Article: How Smokers Can Protect Their Health
<> A Word From Our Sponsor
You can read previous issues of The Quit Smoking Report on our
web site. Just visit: http://www.quitsmoking.com/ezine/
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Hello again everyone!
First, to all the BBS regulars, the BBS is now up and running!
The service should not experience any further interruptions
anytime soon!
http://www.quitsmoking.com/bbs.htm
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This past week R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company announced it would
begin making cigarettes with lower levels of tobacco-specific
nitrosamine (TSNAs), a substance found to be a cancer-causing
agent in some animal experiments.
"Because TSNAs as individual compounds have been identified as
carcinogens at very high doses in some animal experiments,
RJRT's product-stewardship philosophy dictates that we switch to
low TSNA flue-cured tobacco in our cigarette blends as soon as
we feasibly can," said Gary Burger, R.J. Reynolds executive vice
president, research and development.
Oh, thank you, R.J. Reynolds for caring so much about smokers!
My interpretation of this is that the tobacco company has
started to realize that if they can keep cigarettes from killing
you as quickly as before, then they can sell you more cigarettes
for a few extra years.
Don't let yourself be manipulated by these people! The bottom
line is that they want your money, and they don't care about the
fact that they're killing you to get it.
If someone approached you on the street and pointed a gun in
your face and said "if you give me your money I'll kill you," you
wouldn't give him your money, right? It would be a different
story if he said "give me your money *OR* I'll kill you." See
the difference? The first "threat" is really a choice. Why give
him your money AND be killed? The cigarette companies are
doing the same thing. They take your money, then the
cigarettes kill you--it just takes longer than a bullet from a
gun!
Get mad at the tobacco companies. Let your anger motivate you to
make the choice to quit.
Fight crime! Don't smoke!
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17th with regular shipping, and orders within the U.S. should
reach you in time for Christmas. Order as late as December 22nd
at 11:00 PM, with Express Mail, and most orders will be
delivered by Christmas day. Express Mail is delivered on
Christmas day!
Gift certificates are also available!
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shopping options. Be sure to visit
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to find all the toys your kids want!
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Remember, you can read previous issues of The Quit Smoking
Report on our web site. Just visit:
http://www.quitsmoking.com/ezine/
Fred Kelley
fredk@quitsmoking.com
QuitSmoking.com
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SMOKING TOP 10 LIST
Top 10 lines I've used to bum a cigarette
10. I'm doing a project on smoking. I don't smoke, I just need
one for the project.
9. Nice shoes! Wanna give me a smoke?
8. This is absolutely the last one I borrow...ever... cross my
heart hope to die.
7. I'm with Unicef and there are millions of children going
without cigarettes in the world each day.. please help.
6. Hey Baby--What could be hotter than us dying together? (Dana)
or
I love you too much to let you die alone. Let me have a
cigarette so I can keep you company. (Melissa Conklin)
5. *cough* Too much fresh air! *hack* Must get cigarette to
live! *cough**hack* Help a brother out? (B.J.)
or
Hey I can breathe, quick... gimmie a cigarette! (Craig Sollman)
4. Let me help you quit.
3. Excuse me Sir, how would you like me to extend your life by a
few minutes? (Leith)
or
You really shouldn't light that cigarette because they are so
unhealthy and smelly, here give it to me and let me buy you
another year. (Terry Helmstetter)
2. Hey...remember the ciggie i loaned you last night?
and the #1 line I've used to bum a cigarette...
1. Would you be so kind, as to give me some cancer?
The Top 10 Authors:
Loren Mazereeuw - 1, 4, 10
Khurram Baloch - 2, 8
Leith - 3
Terry Helmstetter - 3
B.J. - 5, 9
Craig Sollman - 5
Dana - 6
Melissa Conklin - 6
T.J - 7
Congratulations to the winners!
Want to participate? Anyone can send in their entry to the next
Top 10 list. You may send as many entries as you want. THEY
SHOULD BE FUNNY! For complete rules and details, visit the web
site at http://www.quitsmoking.com/top10/index.htm
Here's the next Top 10 List topic:
Top 10 lies I told (or tell) my parents about my smoking
Send your HUMOROUS entries to: [address removed - contest over]
Be sure to send me your name so I can give you credit.
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FEATURED PRODUCT: The Smoker's Guide to Vitamins and Health
http://www.quitsmoking.com/books/vitamins/index.htm
If you still smoke or have quit but are concerned about your
health, you can protect yourself from cancer, heart disease and
more by taking vitamins or eating foods rich in vitamins. That's
the message from this book.
Get the latest facts on how to protect your health:
** A Harvard University study shows these vitamins cut smokers'
heart disease risk by 70%.
** These foods cut smokers' lung cancer risk by 48% . Are they
on your menu ?
** Two top university studies show smokers who take this vitamin
cut their heart disease risk by 33%.
** This vitamin helps remove the poisonous chemicals in
cigarette smoke from your body.
** Smoking a pack a day cuts your body's store of this cancer-
fighting vitamin by up to 34%. Government health experts
recommend smokers take more. Most smokers aren't getting enough
- are you ?
** Studies worldwide show that drinking this popular beverage
cuts cancer risk. What do you drink ?
Praise from an expert:
"... very well-researched and accurate ... it is possible to
take valuable steps to protect your health", says Gladys Block,
PhD, Professor of Public Health and Nutrition, University of
California at Berkeley.
Protecting your health can be as easy as taking a few vitamins
at breakfast. Get all the facts, stay healthy and live longer.
Read chapter one below.
The Smoker's Guide to Vitamins and Health
http://www.quitsmoking.com/books/vitamins/index.htm
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ARTICLE: Chapter 1 - How Smokers Can Protect Their Health
from the book
The Smoker's Guide to Vitamins and Health
by Alistair Moodie B.S.
http://www.quitsmoking.com/books/vitamins/index.htm
Dear Smoker,
After decades of health warnings from the Surgeon General and
other health authorities few people would now deny that smoking
carries health risks. However despite these risks over 46
million Americans, about one fourth of the adult population
choose to smoke. It is for you dear reader, one of this much
neglected and persecuted group that this book is written.
In it you will find a summary of the results from more than 200
scientific studies on smoking, vitamins and health. A great
number of these studies show a strong and consistent link
between a high intake of antioxidant vitamins or fresh fruits
and vegetables rich in antioxidant vitamins and reduced risk of
smoking related diseases. Also included are other simple changes
you can make in the foods you eat which offer health protection
for smokers.
Increasing your intake of fruit and vegetables, taking vitamin
supplements or changing your food choices are all simple and
inexpensive ways you can protect your health.
A little history
Medical science has conquered the major infectious diseases
smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid, cholera by finding an antidote
to the microbe or foreign invader responsible for the infection.
We now have vaccines to prevent these diseases or treatments to
clear them up quickly when they occur.
Unfortunately the ailments from which most people in the
industrialized world now suffer are the degenerative diseases
such as cancer, heart disease, arthritis and cataract. Unlike
infectious diseases which can lay you low or kill you in a
matter of weeks or even days, it takes years or in some cases
decades for the degenerative diseases to get the better of you.
The infectious diseases of old have now been conquered, but
unfortunately for the degenerative diseases, modern medical
science has no quick and easy answers.
It is now widely accepted that these degenerative diseases are
the result not of a single foreign agent invading the body but
come about when a number of factors overwhelm the body's
defenses. As this is a book for smokers, let's take lung cancer
as an example. Most people, including smokers, now accept that
smoking is a cause of lung cancer. However not all smokers get
lung cancer and on the other hand about 8% of people who have
never smoked are struck down with this disease. Factors other
than smoking must play a part. What you eat, atmospheric
pollution, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, stress and probably
several other factors all contribute to weaken our bodies
defense system and increase vulnerability to this cancer and
many other diseases.
The importance of what you eat
In the 1970s population surveys began to show a consistent link
between a diet rich in fruit and vegetables and lowered rates of
cancer and heart disease. Attention then turned to examining the
results of these studies nutrient by nutrient to uncover the
link with specific ailments.
Vitamin C, vitamin E and beta carotene, known as the
antioxidants, soon took center stage as the evidence continued
to build. The point has now been reached where several hundred
scientific studies link a high intake of these antioxidant
vitamins or foods rich in them with reduced risk of heart
disease and cancer, especially lung cancer. There is little need
to remind you here that as a smoker these are the ailments from
which you are most at risk.
Smokers and vitamins - the bad news and the good news
The bad news - Several large scale surveys have measured the
antioxidant vitamin status of smokers compared to nonsmokers and
consistently report the following:
* Smokers have lower intake of antioxidant vitamins
* Smokers use up antioxidant vitamins more rapidly
* Smokers have lower blood and tissue levels of these vitamins
In other words smokers are nearly always deficient in the
essential antioxidant vitamins which have shown a strong and
consistent link with reduced risk of heart disease, lung cancer
and a wide range of other ailments associated with smoking.
The good news - Fortunately increasing your intake and raising
your blood and tissue levels of the antioxidant vitamins is not
difficult. Broadly speaking you have three choices:
1. Change your diet. Increasing the amount of fresh fruits and
vegetables you eat will raise your intake of vitamin C and
carotenes. This is the best way to get your daily needs of these
two vitamins as scientists believe fruits and vegetables may
contain other as yet undiscovered protective nutrients.
2. Take vitamin supplements. If you are unable, or do not choose
to eat the recommended quantities of fruits and vegetables to
get sufficient vitamin C and beta carotene then you have the
option to take supplements. As it is nearly impossible to get
sufficient vitamin E from foods to reach the level at which
protective effects have been found, taking supplements is the
only way to go for this vitamin.
3. Combine the two. Do your best to increase your intake of
fresh fruits and vegetables and take vitamin supplements to
ensure your intake of these nutrients reaches the level which
gives optimum health and provides maximum protection from
disease.
http://www.quitsmoking.com/books/vitamins/index.htm
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SMOKERS' STORIES
Due to space limitations, I'll return with a special Smokers'
Stories issue next week.
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Until next time, GET MAD AT THE TOBACCO COMPANIES,
Fred Kelley
Next Issue: 12/14/99
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