Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the U.S. According to recent statistics from the Centers fro Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 440,000 Americans die from using tobacco products each year. One in every five deaths in the U.S. is from smoking related diseases.

Twenty-seven percent of the population smoke. Although 70 percent of these tobacco users SAY they want to quit, only 40 percent actually try to quit each year, and only one to two percent succeed.

The Benefits -
Healthy rewards from quitting smoking
Your decision to stop smoking is one of the most important things you can do to improve your health!

• Immediately: The air around you is no longer dangerous to children and other adults
• 20 Minutes: blood pressure lowers
• 24 hours: Chance of heart attack decreases
• 2 to 12 weeks: Circulation improves
• 1 year: excess risk of heart disease drops to half that of a smoker.
• 5-15 years: Stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker
• 10 years: Risk of cancer of the lung, mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidneys, and pancreas decreases