Quitting Tobacco for the New Year
Call the NH Tobacco Helpline today to begin making your Personalized Quit Plan. Help is Free and Confidental. See what the Next Steps are to planning your quit here. Between 22% and 25% of NH residents who have used the NH Tobacco Helpline to quit are currently NOT smoking at all! Congratulations to them! (National successful quit rates are about 6%. The average person makes 7-10, or more quit attempts before being completely quit—it's all part of the process of quitting smoking and learning new behavior.)
Your year to QUIT!
Send a Health e-card to someone you care about.This animated e-card encourages smokers to make a New Year’s resolution to quit. Click here to visit the CDC website and see and send the card.
November is COPD Awareness monthEvery cigarette is doing you damage, which can lead to lung disease, cancer, heart disease and many other conditions. Rocker STING has teamed up with health officials to promote a new anti-smoking campaign.
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
Visit the FDA website to learn more »
DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES (DPHS) LAUNCHES STATEWIDE MOBILE CAMPAIGN TO GEAR UP FOR KICK BUTTS DAY 2011The DPHS, Tobacco Prevention & Control Program (TPCP) is launching a media campaign to connect NH tobacco users with text message support that provides counseling and encouragement for quitting tobacco use. DPHS currently offers free counseling and nicotine replacement patches (NRT) to residents who call 1-800-QUIT-NOW or self-refer via the web to the NH Tobacco Helpline (www.TryToStopNH.org). NH residents will now have additional support right at their fingertips with the first-ever statewide mobile campaign aimed to help NH tobacco users quit for good. Beginning this March, participants who text "QUITNOW" to 22122, will receive a call back from a certified tobacco treatment specialist at the NH Tobacco Helpline, free cessation advice and counseling and can request to qualify for free NRT. March 23rd is National Kick Butts Day, organized by the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids – a day when thousands of youth in every state and around the world will stand out, speak up and seize control against big tobacco. NH DPHS wants to be ready to help those residents who may be motivated to make a quit attempt on this day. Additionally, in June, participants will be able to sign up for a NH Quit Tips via text or online. Tips will be sent to the registrants' mobile phone at the times when they have identified they have the strongest cravings for nicotine. The text messages will provide some of the "quit tips" that one would get from a counselor at the Helpline or at 1-800-GET-A-TIP (the Helpline's daily recorded quit tips line). "The NH Tobacco Helpline has proven to be an effective tool in helping NH residents quit tobacco use," said Dr. José Montero, Director of DPHS. "New technologies allow us to give people a chance to see the kind of sound advice the Helpline offers through a simple process—texting." Thousands of services have been provided to NH residents who have called the Helpline at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) for support in navigating the rough waters of smoking cessation. Now, the helpful tips of a Helpline counselor can remind texters that quitting smoking is possible and offer up advice that is tailored according to the texter's responses to a few questions. Texting has become a central form of communication, especially for young adults, and people who may be reluctant to call the helpline may be willing to opt in for the text messages. Bus advertisements, mailers and radio spots to promote NH Tobacco Helpline's text campaign will begin appearing statewide. For more information about the NH Tobacco Helpline, please visit www.TryToStopNH.org or call 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-866). For more information about the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids or Kick Butts Day, visit www.kickbuttsday.org. Cigarette Smoke Damages Every Organ in the Body
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Setting a Quit Date is one of the most important steps leading up to a
successful quit. If you are thinking of quitting smoking or chew as one of your New Year's Resolutions, you are not alone—many Granite Staters will be getting ready to quit right along side you.
The Roxanne hitmaker is backing the Every Breath initiative by Fresh and the British Lung Foundation, and has offered up his hit track Every Breath You Take as the promo's soundtrack. The campaign aims to highlight the long-term effects of smoking, and Sting says, "Many people across the U.K. are affected by lung damage and other smoking related illnesses, particularly in the North East where I grew up." visit 
The DPHS, Tobacco Prevention & Control Program (TPCP) is launching a media campaign to connect NH tobacco users with text message support that provides counseling and encouragement for quitting tobacco use.NH Success Rates
At the NH Tobacco Helpline, 81.8% of quitters surveyed in June of '09, were satisfied at some level (completely, mostly or somewhat), with the quit process and counseling they received.
26.5% of those surveyed are currently NOT smoking at all! Congratulations
to them!
(National successful quit rates are about 6%. The average person
makes 7 - 10, or more quit attempts before being completely quit - it's all
part of the process of quitting smoking and learning new behavior.)
Butt test shows U.S. cigarettes high in chemicals
Americans inhale more cancer-causing agents with their cigarettes, probably because of the tobacco blend, while smokers in Canada, Britain and Australia get less, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
Their unique study also demonstrated that the amounts of these carcinogens in a smoker's cigarette butts directly correlated with tell-tale compounds in the smoker's urine. Read about the study here.
World No Tobacco Day - May 31, 2010
Women comprise about 20% of the world's more than 1 billion smokers. However, the epidemic of tobacco use among women is increasing in some countries. Women are a major target of opportunity for the tobacco industry, which needs to recruit new users to replace the nearly half of current users who will die prematurely from tobacco-related diseases. Click here to visit the World Health Organizations website for more information on World No Tobacco Day and this year's theme of gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women.
National 'Through With Chew Week' is February 14th - 20th
The Great American Spit Out is February 18th!
In NH:
- 21.8% of NH high school males reported trying smokeless tobacco
—— 11.7% reported using it within the past 30 days
- 7.6% of NH high school females reported trying smokeless tobacco
—— 2.8% reported using it within the past 30 days
- In 2006, nearly twice as many adult tobacco users in NH reported tooth loss due to decay or gum disease compared to tooth loss reported by non-users
FACTS
- Each year, mouth or throat cancer will kill approximately 8,000 people in the US
—— that is 1 person per hour, 24 hours a day
- Tobacco use causes tooth loss and gum disease
- Cancer from chewing tobacco doesn't only occur in the mouth
—— some of the cancer-causing agents in the tobacco can get into the lining of your stomach, your esophagus, and your bladder
- About 70% of spit tobacco users report having mouth sores
- Using chew can also cause
—— cracking and bleeding lips and gums
—— receding gums
—— increased heart rate
—— high blood pressure
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