Help Quitting

Quitting smoking is the single most important thing you can do to improve your health. If you smoke, you increase your chances of getting many diseases, such as lung cancer, heart disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including emphysema.

Now the good news! Every day that you are not smoking your health is improving. Your circulation gets better, your lungs are clearing, your heart doesn’t have to work so hard, and your blood pressure goes down, just to mention a few.

DCTFF provides the latest tobacco cessation treatments to help you quit smoking, including FREE patches, lozenges, and counseling for DC residents! Research shows when you combine these evidence-based treatments, your chances of staying quit doubles! Please call our free Quitline, 1-800-QUIT-NOW for this free service.

The materials provided here can help you begin the steps to quitting smoking for good. If you’ve tried to quit before and it didn’t work, the most important thing is to keep on quitting until you quit for good! Remember, the only failure is when you stop trying! You can select which of the materials can best help you based on your own smoking history.

kjones | 14 December 2005 |