QUITSMART™ STOP SMOKING PROGRAM

QuitSmart™ combines powerful treatments to help you break free from cigarettes. Dr. Betty is a Certified QuitSmart™ Leader. Your commitment is four classes for one and a half hours each.

Prior to the first class it is recommended that you contact your doctor and inform him/her that you will be participating in the QuitSmart™ Program, therefore, you would like to be prescribed Wellbutrin during the transition. Wellburtrin will help curb your cravings and moodiness.

During the program you will learn to:

• Ease off nicotine. Gradually ease off nicotine by switching to cigarette brands that deliver less and less nicotine. We call this "warm chicken" quitting.
• Use your mind to help. Shakespeare was right, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." From your first days off cigarettes, you will learn to think of yourself as a calm, comfortable, and happy nonsmoker.
• Use a hypnosis audiotape or CD. Hypnosis will help you relax and enjoy your new life as a nonsmoker. The tape or CD is simple and effective. You remain in control at all times.
• Decide whether to use medication. For some smokers, medication can double the chance of success. We will help you decide whether to use a nicotine-replacement product or one of the non-nicotine medications.
• Break the habit of smoking. Your smoking habit may be strong, but you will learn seven simple ways to outsmart it.

QuitSmart™ Works

QuitSmart™ was created by the director of the prestigious Duke University Stop Smoking Clinic, and is taught by Certified QuitSmart™ leaders. You are assured of high quality professional help, based on solid research findings.

Scientific studies prove that QuitSmart™ is more effective than other methods. In one study, 66% of QuitSmart™ participants remained smoke free after six months, compared to 20% of those in four other stop-smoking program.
(Shipley, et al., Federal Practitioner, 2002, Vol. 19(3), p. 13-22)

QuitSmart™ Kit

You will receive the acclaimed QuitSmart™ Stop Smoking Kit. The kit includes an informative guidebook, a relaxing hypnosis audiotape or CD, and a patented cigarette substitute.

"It is hard to say which of the three kit elements I enjoyed most."
James Dillon, MS, RRT
Advance for Respiratory Care Practitioners

"The QuitSmart™ Stop Smoking Kit is easy to use, interactive and informative...I enthusiastically recommend the kit."
Dr. Crystal Dunlevy
Respiratory Care

"Dr. Robert Shipley, director of the prestigious Duke University Quit Smoking Clinic, has come up with a tool to help people through the struggle...The appealing prose, cartoons, and charts in the QuitSmart™ guide make for engaging reading."
Mark J. Tager, M.D.
American Journal of Health Promotion

"Over the past many years, I have loaned my QuitSmart™ guide to four different people. I know that at least three of them successfully stopped smoling. The fourth disappeared with my guide."
Muriel B. Haber
Former two-pack-a-day smoker

ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSING QUITSMART™

The QuitSmart™ program has been selected by hundreds of military/veterans health care facilities, hospitals, universities and corporations to help smokers quit.

Apple Computer, Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital, Daimler-Chrysler, Delco/Delphi, Duke University Medical Center, Ford Motor Company, Gaston County Cancer Society, General Electric, HCA Indian Path Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, Millard Public Schools, Owens-Corning, Rutgers University, U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Army Fort Dix, 75 Military/Verterans Facilities, PLUS HUNDREDS MORE . . . . .

"QuitSmart™ worked for me. Since I can endorse it personally, I have started using it for Scott employees. It's simple, appealing, and, to date, has had a higher success rate than more conventional methods."
Veronica J. Malone, RN
Scott Paper Company

"The QuitSmart™ method has a lot of appeal - it's simple, it's protable, and people can relate to it. It's certainly worked for us in our worksite setting."
Bonnie England, RN
Dayville, CT

Should you decide that you are ready to "kick the habit" or need more information, please contact Dr. Betty at 570-253-8060, fill in our request form or email her at minervaed@aol.com.

 

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