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Choose a Smoke-free Lifestyle
Smoking kills. If you smoke, you need to stop. It's that simple. According to the Canadian Lung Association smoking directly kills about 45,000 Canadians each year-more than the total combined number of annual deaths from AIDS, car accidents, suicides, murders, fires, and accidental poisonings.
The Smoking Cycle
Smokers may seem happy, but new studies show that they face a greater risk of developing depression than non-smokers. People who are depressed are also more likely to start smoking. By offering our understanding rather than lecturing, perhaps we can help the smokers we know butt out for good.
Butt Out!
If you smoke, it's time to quit. If you're breathing second-hand smoke at home, it's time to help that smoker quit. This is your wake-up call: smoking kills.
Kicking the Tobacco Habit
Herbal and nutritional supplementation, along with behaviour and lifestyle modification, can provide the holistic health support needed to quit smoking and begin to repair the damage it causes.
Be Leaner and Smoke-Free in 2006
The two main health-improvement resolutions people make for the New Year are losing weight and stopping smoking. And for good reason!
A Smoking Gun
Quitting smoking is not easy, but with strong determination and support you can succeed in kicking the habit. The first step toward success is to make up your mind that you're ready to quit.
Forever Young
All of us want to have longer and healthier lives, and while some of us are dealt a better hand than others in life's genetic lottery, there are many ways we can maximize the potential we are born with.
Starting Fresh
It happens every year. Friends, colleagues, and clients ask for help, "What can I do to quit smoking? Cold turkey didn't work and I'm scared I'll put on weight. Help! I'm happy to lend any support I can.
Call it Quits
Cigarettes remind me of my dad. His brand of choice was Players Light, in turquoise and white cartons or tin.
Tobacco Industry Update: International Tactics Still a Smoking Gun

Massive, antismoking advertising campaigns have made it clear, to North Americans at least: smoking is the number one - and most preventable - cause of il.

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