Quit Smoking - From a Smoker Who Did
Stop Smoking and Become Healthy Again Quit Smoking : From an Ex-Smoker
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Hello reader, it has been called to my attention that this treatment towards quitting smoking may be unheeding of the sensitivities of some of you out there trying to quit. I would appreciate any input you may have regarding it’s effectiveness.
William

QUITTING SMOKING THE EASY WAY

You’re dreaming, because there is no easy way to quit smoking!
Do you or someone close to you smoke? Just answer the question, yes or no. If the answer is no, then you can stop reading. If the answer is yes, then you have a problem.
Now that we have got that out of the way, welcome to the most difficult time of your life. I hear you saying: “Ah shucks, I can quit the habit with my hands tied behind my back.” Right! For a majority of people, that is the ONLY way they are going to quit: where they can’t light the cigarette. Of course there are a few diehards who will stick their face into the barbecue to get the stupid thing lit. This may be the most important document you will ever read. It could be a lifesaver - literally.
I believe knowledge is power. In this turorial, I will give you sufficient knowledge to quit the cigarette habit. It is not only about quitting: it is more about WHY you must quit. You, as the reader, must believe that I have no ulterior motives for wanting to help you quit. I’ve already given you this information, so why should I bother? Because I know from personal experience how deadly smoking really is. And I will do my level best to help you kick the most seductive habit known to mankind. How will I do this? By informing you, insulting you, even throwing subtle hints your way, like ‘YOU’RE KILLING YOURSELF!!’. If you are intelligent, you WILL quit smoking. If you don’t have a brain in your head, you are just wasting your time reading this: keep on puffing away!
Do you want to beat the odds? The cigarette companies are betting on your habit. They are so sure of themselves that they continue to raise the price of cigarettes, banking on the fact that you are hooked for life. And do you know what? They are probably right 5 out of 7 times. Those are pretty good odds. My name is William. I smoked heavily for about 10 years. Quit for about 8 months and then went back to 3 packs a day. When I quit the second time, there was a solid reason: I realized that I was destroying my health and ultimately self. Not one of these jumping off a ten story building or putting a gun to my head type of suicides. No, much slower and much more agonizing in the suffering.
Back in the Medievil days, a torcherer who killed the victim too quickly, was himself torchered and killed: the point being that the torcherer was to put the victim through the most excruciating pain for the longest period possible, yet keeping him alive. There is a direct parallel here, boys and girls. Tobacco hurts you in many subtle ways and for the most part slowly. It may not be intense pain at first, but that is the seductiveness of it. As some philosophers have noticed, we all start dying the minute we are born: but for most smokers the process of dying takes on a whole new meaning. I have heard of people talk about this guy or that lady who smoked until they were 90 years old. These questions enter my mind when I hear this tripe.


If I go to Las Vegas, I can bet my life on two things. I am going to have a great time and I am going to lose money. Maybe not every time, but in the long run the house always wins. The statiticians in that town can tell me almost to the penny what my odds are. The math never changes. When you smoke, (in effect) you ARE going to Las Vegas. You ARE betting your life. It IS going to be enjoyable. And you ARE going to lose.
Did I say that smoking is enjoyable? OF COURSE I DID, BECAUSE IT IS! But so is snorting cocaine or doing any other drugs. So is getting drunk every night, if you aren’t concerned with how you feel the next morning and what you are doing to your liver. And in a way that’s what this whole problem of smoking is about. If you don’t care how you are going to feel down the line, why quit? As you puff away, it is literally impossible to imagine yourself 10 or 20 years from now, unless you watch and learn from the mistakes of others. Look at a 50 or 60 year old smoker and notice their overall health. Notice what they do for enjoyment: generally something that involves sitting. How many tennis players, runners, and soccer players do you see smoking?
Enter the quality of life. If you smoke and are glued to the tube for most of your adult life, are you really living? The discussion can quickly turn philisophical over just this point. We see young people covorting at the beach and marvel at all that energy. We ARE those young people (in our imaginations), but if we attempt to join them, we realize that it takes too much energy: energy that seems to have drained from our bodies after 15 years of smoking. Does it have to remain that way? No, but it will: it will until you make the decision that you really want to live. Not just survive, but become as healthy as your age allows. Your real age, not the artificial age cigs have given you. Make no mistake, smoking will age you far beyond your years, no matter how healthy you THINK you are.
For the duration of this script, I am going to make your problem my problem. Let’s not kid ourselves: if you smoke even 1 cigarette a day, you are doing four things. 1) You are screwing up your health. 2) You are making someone around you (who doesn’t smoke) uncomfortable and very possibly screwing up their health. 3) You are throwing away (lots of) money that probably could be put to better use. 4) You are making more profits for the tobacco companies who in turn are screwing up other peoples health. And those ‘other people’ are just possibly your sons and daughters or other youths who (like yourselves) have not been educated as to the ills of the habit.
Do you admit the above facts? You have to, if this is going to do you any good. Think about it. Pretend you have a small child you love very much. Would you encourage them to start smoking at 5 years old? How about 10 years old? Unfortunately, some parents FORCE their children to smoke when they are no older than a week old. And that child may be FORCED to smoke until the parent quits or the kid leaves the house. Second hand smoke is in some circles thought to be more deadly to the smokees than for the smoker. A ‘smokee’ is a nonsmoking person or pet who inhales air filled with someone else’s smoke.) A recent conversation with a friend of mine brought out the following facts. Both his mother and father smoked. Even when he was still being nursed, his mother smoked. He had to put up with secondhand smoke until he left home, about 18 years. And to this day he has a sinus problem that he attributes to that constant intake of his parents smoke. A major part of this tutorial is aimed at convincing you that you are ruining your health and probably others close to you, including your dog.
Are there benefits to smoking? Of course there are. I smoked for over ten years (and none of this one cigarette a day crap). It was relaxing: I enjoyed watching the smoke curl up and around: it gave me something to do with my hands: I thought it made me look cool, like the movie stars. But are the benefits worth the negatives? Smoking, unlike any other vice invented by human beings, has such a long term destructive effect, that you hardly know there is a problem until your doctor tells you that you have emphysema, or hardening of the arteries, or any one of a plethora of ailements directly associated with smoking.
Did you know that smoke destroys or lessens the effectiveness of certain vitamins and minerals in the body? Let us digress just a little bit. About a year ago I went to a lecture by a doctor who was selling his own brand of vitamins and minerals. The purpose of the lecture was to convince the audience that the food we buy today does not contain a sufficient amount of vitamins and minerals to sustain a healthy body: this is including fruits and vegetables as well as the normal fare of bread, meats, and such. Now, I was aware that the good doctor was pushing his own brand of vitamins, but he also made some very good points. The soil that most crops are grown in today is severely depleted of a lot of the trace elements our body needs, as well as certain vitamins. That means that no matter how ‘good’ we eat, we are not getting sufficient vitamins and minerals. But we’re not finished yet. I have a chart that gives all the vitamins and minerals the human body needs to remain healthy. Next to the vitamin’s beneficial effects are what is termed as ‘anti-vitamins’, substances that nulify the vitamins’ benefits. Tobacco is one of the major substances that is classified as an anti-vitamin. If effects the body’s ability to absorb vitamins B-1, B-2, B-6, B-12, vitamin C and Folic Acid. The chart clearly shows that if you smoke, the nicotine will virtually eliminate your body’s ability to make use of these vitamins. What does that tell us? Our body will virtually starve for those essential vitamins if we smoke to any degree. Does that mean that we are going to instantly die or get deathly ill? No, of course not. But, weigh the effects over a period of time and you will find that the bodies of smokers ABSOLUTELY DO deteriate more rapidly than if they had not had the habit.
For one reason or another, you may not have a scale to judge the effects of smoking over a period of years. In such a case, you must look to others in your age bracket, who do not smoke. What are they doing? What is their activity level? You will find that a lot of people your age who have quit, have joined the local gym or YMCA. Or they golf or walk a lot. It is almost a given that after you quit the habit, you will start to gain weight. Some people gain a lot more than others. We are thrown into exercising by the shear necessity of keeping our weight down. After quitting, you will also have more energy. Exercise also does something else. A lot of people who smoke, do so because they get keyed up: smoking seems to relax them. Exercise also relaxes you. A long walk or a good run will wear you down a little: enough so, that the tension is released. You can become totally relaxed through exercising, naturally. It also lessens the craving you may have to light one up.
Here is an interesting antedote. Almost everyone remembers their smoking debut: that first puff. In my case, I had just graduated from high school, a big wrestling stud. This persona interested a certain young lady of the upper class. Mutual attraction led to my spending many hours over at her house. To be cool, she would swipe her mom’s cigarettes and blow smoke rings. One day, the girl, her mom, and I were relaxing and Mom offers me a cigarette. Hey, I’m cool: sure I’ll have one. And that’s all it took. The ending to this story is not too cool. I had lost contact with the girl for almost 30 years, but as chance will have it, met her again. We talked about old times, her family, the usual. I asked about her mother and she said her mom was great. But mom wasn’t so great - several months later I received a death card in the mail. Mom, who had given me my first cigarette, was dead at the age of about 65. The cause: lung cancer. And she was such a nice lady!
I have a few friends who smoke: not many, but a couple. Every chance that presents itself, I will make some sneaky comment about the fact that puffing is bad for them. They immediately throw away their cigarettes and swear to never smoke again. HA, HA, HA, HA; in your dreams. What they actually do is ignore me (as much as is possible) and go right on smoking as if I don’t exist. Why do I even bother? Because there is a Chinese proverb that if you say something enough times, it will become true. And I truly do hope that these people will quit, and maybe hammering away at them will work. On the other hand, it is possible that I am accomplishing just the opposite: strengthening their resolve to continue puffing at all costs. It is very upsetting, because I like them and really do wish they would quit slowly killing themselves. And that is something you will recognize also: that people around you who love you would like to see you live to a ripe old age. Yet there is an undercurrent of frustration, because they see you slowly killing yourself, and are too considerate to say anything. Actually, I don’t see that as considerate. If I see someone harming their bodies (or minds for that matter), some inborn response requires that I remind them of that fact. Sure, I may lose a friend if I am too obnoxious about it. On the other hand, I would rather lose them now, than have to watch them slowly deteriate without my ever having said a thing.
I saw a Science Fiction movie a while ago, kind of black humor. It revolved around a company who guaranteed that they could get their clients to quit smoking. The movie started out with a guy signing up for the service in order that he could quit smoking. In a way he wanted to quit, but wasn’t quite ready yet, so he kept sneaking smokes. As with a number of persons attempting to quit, he relied on a crutch; ie - the company’s guarantee. It was quite comical: the sneaking a puff where nobody could possibly catch him. But in the end, he did quit. Why? Because it turned out that the company was serious about getting him to quit: even to the extent of cutting off one of his wife’s fingers every time he cheated. There is an interesting parallel here. In real life, your real life, if the the premise of the cure came down to the threat of bodily harm to yourself or loved ones, what would you do? Could you quit if a loved one was torchered every time you took a smoke? Probably, if you saw the threat as real. And yet looking from a slightly different angle, this may be happening to you at this very moment. In harming yourself, aren’t you also hurting those around you? Do you think they enjoy watching your health deteriate? If they don’t smoke, do you think they enjoy watching THEIR health deteriate? The problem is (and I can’t stress this enough) that a smoker’s health doesn’t take a nosedive: it is a slow and methodical grinding away, so slow as to not be noticable. Take a rock on the seashore: what can possibly wear it down? Sand and water. From one day to the next there is no detectible change in the rock, but given enough time the rock becomes - sand.
Hydrogenguy is currently circulating a questionaire, asking smokers and ex-smokers specific questions pertaining to why they smoke, what benefits they feel there are, and many other things pertaining to the habit. The questions are at the end of this page: http://www.hydrogenguy.com/quitsmok.htm If you like, print them out and send them to a smoking friend and also to us and we will post the responses at a later date.
KICKING THE HABIT
There are at least a zillion claims out there, that tell you they can help you quit in three easy steps, or four, or whatever. The reality is there are NO easy steps to quitting permanently. Some programs will work for a while: then they stop working. I do not encourage drugs of any kind for several reasons. First you become dependent on the drugs, and second, you are not really quitting, just trading one bad habit for another. I admit the patch or pills may work for some people for a while, but in the long run, the only way to quit is to QUIT!!
When I quit the second time, I tossed the cigs in the fireplace and never looked back. I’m not saying that it was easy: it was extremely difficult. Especially the first month or so. On the other hand, I have talked to people that quit without any problem at all. At least that’s what they SAY. I wonder.
ACTUALLY QUITTING
Below are 8 different methods I would encourage you to consider in attempting to quit:
All the above “tricks” have only one end result in mind: to quit the habit. There are probably hundreds of other ways to entice yourself into a healthier life style. If they are legal, try them. No matter what path you choose, keep a log or diary and write down your feelings and mental state and the reasons why you wanted to quit. And any time you feel that you can’t exist another second without that cancer stick, read that diary. You will notice that the reasoning behind your quitting has not changed in the least bit. What IS changing is your willpower and resolve. You must constantly remind yourself that you have quit for long-range reasons, not the immediate gratification those puffs will give you.
The above methods may or may not appeal to you. But we are not really concerned with what you LIKE, are we? WHATEVER WORKS, that is the name of the game. If you find one method is not working, try another. And if that fails, try another approach. Within reason, the only thing you should concern yourself with is the end result.
Did I say quitting the habit was hard? Nah, it’s easy. For the first minute, 5 minutes, maybe even half an hour. What is difficult is to remain abstaining for ever and ever. That is where certain tricks come into play. Tell your friends that you are quitting and that if you ask them for a cig, that they are not to give you one. Make them promise. If you have friends that smoke, try to remain outdoors while they smoke. Better yet, try to get THEM to go outside when they light up. Stay out of smoke-filled rooms such as bars and poolhalls. If someone else in your household smokes, you have a very serious problem. Sit down and discuss it with them and if they don’t wish to quit, ask them to be considerate of your wishes and to at least smoke in a closed off room or even better outside. (I am living in California, the state that has just barred smoking in most stores and restaurants. Bowling alleys are also included: one such closed it’s doors on the premise that the business dried up because people wanted to smoke while bowling.)
I have got into arguments, even got a divorce, over people smoking around me. You, also, will find that when you quit, you will make new friends: more than not, friends who don’t smoke or at least don’t smoke around you. You may disagree, but if you think that you can be around other people smoking while you are trying to quit, I have a bridge to sell you. It is extremely taxing to be breathing second hand smoke and not be able to light one up yourself. You will also discover that giving up cigs is a lifetime affair. The first month or two is the hardest, but even after years of having quit, you will find yourself thinking of lighting up. Only then can you fully understand the addictiveness of smoking. My hope in your reading this essay, is not to discourage you, but to inform you so that you are prepared for the problems that confront you.
Mini-crutches are alright. I previously have stated that I am not in favor of drugs in quitting. But I feel (a personal opinion) that a quitter should have something to chew on. Something that is not detrimental to your health, but that can take place of the smoking. There are a lot of substitutes: gum, sugar or sugarless (no nicotine gums); Life-Savers come both ways also; toothpicks, they even come flavored; raisins and currents; sunflower seeds; trail mix, a combination of dried fruits and nuts. The new kid on the block is wolfberries. They look like red raisins, but have a taste all their own. Grown in China and imported, they are very nutritious, practically a foodgroup in themselves. The list goes on and on. I knew a guy who had quit and gotten into the habit of chewing whole sunflower seeds: you always knew he had been there from all the husks strewn all over. The point is that one of the tricks to quitting is to have something that keeps your mouth occupied. It DOES help.

FAMOUS QUOTATIONS (AND COMEBACKS)
(That we could laugh about if the consequences weren’t so deadly)
  1. Famous Quotation
    “I’m too old to quit.” (When you are in the grave, you are too old to quit.)
  2. Famous Quotation
    “But grandma smoked all her life and lived to be 95 years old.” (For the last 50 years of her life, she just sat in her rocking chair and smoked.)
  3. Famous Quotation
    “I don’t need to quit, I’m healthy as a horse.” (In your dreams: try racing any of the neighborhood brats around the block. Bet them a dollar and don’t forget your cellphone to call 911.)
  4. Famous Quotation
    “If I quit, I’ll gain weight.” (Very true: on the other hand, if you don’t quit you will lose weight - all of it.)
  5. Famous Quotation
    “I won’t stop unless my husband does also.” (That’s easy: divorce him. Then you will quit and go to a healthclub to make yourself more attractive for the next one.)
  6. Famous Quotation
    “If I quit, I’ll have nothing to do with my hands.” (Take up the guitar.)
  7. Famous Quotation
    “Smoking soothes my nerves.” (So does sex, running, and aerobics, all of which are healthier for you.)
  8. Famous Quotation
    “Smoking keeps me from eating too much.” (True, but that’s because you can’t taste your food. It is a known fact that after quitting, our senses of taste and smell are revived.)
  9. Famous Quotation
    “I drive a lot and smoking keeps me awake.” (Unproven, except when the hot ash falls in your lap.)
  10. Famous Quotation
    “How can I quit, when everyone else around me smokes?” (Change the “everyones” around you or better yet ask them to quit for your sake.)
  11. Famous Quotation
    “The only time I’ll quit, is when my doctor tells me to.” (That’s funny: why pay a doctor to tell you are ruining your health, when you already know it?)
  12. Famous Quotation
    “I like smoking, why should I give it up.” (You give it up to have a full and healthy life, dumbo.)
  13. Famous Quotation
    “I’m not hurting anyone but myself, so why should I quit.” (Because somewhere, someone in the world cares about you and will have to care FOR you while you slowly deteriate from too many cancer sticks. I, William Carlyle, care about you and hope you quit.)
  14. Famous Quotation
    “It’s not illegal, so what’s the problem?” (Not quite illegal, but if you follow the court cases recently handed down, you will see that the cigarette companies are being held liable for damages from their product.)
    And I’m sure you have heard (or used) even better ones, but do they really make any sense? The choice is simple: you do or do not want to live a healthier life in your later years: you do or do not want to stop poisoning everyone around you.

    THE STOP SIGN
    Almost everyone here drives. Let’s say you are going down the road and you come to a stop sign at a busy street. What to do? Should you stop or go on roaring through, hoping you won’t get nailed by a semi-truck? Aside from getting a ticket, you could end up in the hospital (or put someone else in the hospital) and your insurance would be raised or revoked. All this just for disobeying a stupid sign. Do I even have to remind you that in continuing smoking you are running stop sign after stop sign. The odds are almost 100% that at one of those ignored signs, you are going to get nailed: nailed into a hospital bed or a coffin. Coffin to the coffin. And speaking of insurance, once you contract a smoke related illness, you will not be able to find health insurance to cover it. Have you considered why the US Government is sueing all the tobacco companies? Because smoke related illnesses are one of the top costs in Medicare and state medical aid programs. And insurance companies themselves give various discounts to non-smokers.

    HEALTH CLUBS AND THE YMCA
    I am a member of the YMCA in California. In locker-room discussions, a lot of the other members have admitted that they are ex-smokers. Ex-smokers who have woke up to the damaging effects of puffing and, after quitting, decided to get back in shape
    My personal experience is much the same. A varsity wrestler in high school, I started smoking at 18 (very heavily). This went on for about 10 years and when I did finally decide to quit for good, I was 28 years old and SO out of shape. Due to the inevitable weight increase (after I quit), I took up outdoor handball and liked it so much, a move became necessary to support my habit (of handball, that is). Before health clubs had become popular, there was the YMCA (in Santa Barbara) boasting 6 (?) handball courts. My life revolved around the Y for many years. I am presently still a member of the YMCA in California.

    A FRIEND QUITS SMOKING
    Several months back, a friend who I have unsubtly been hounding to quit, did. He quit. He was relying on pills, I believe. I first became aware of it, because he brought it up. He was proud of the fact and since he knew I was concerned, wanted to let me know. His lady also smoked and she was also supposed to quit, but they agreed not to do it at the same time, possibly due to the bad moods associated to the early stages of quitting.
    Well, to make a long story short, it only lasted about 2 weeks and I saw my buddy with a cig in his mouth. I didn’t say anything because there was nothing TO say. He was one of the statistics mentioned earlier that the tobacco companies bank on. He wanted to quit ~ kinda. But his reasons and motivations were weaker than the desire to puff. He also had a lot of stress, job related or personal, I don’t know. Instead of running around the block several times, his stress reliever is the cancer stick.
    About a week later I talked to him and casually mentioned that I noticed he was smoking again. He admitted it, but said that he was quitting again the following week. I wished him luck. IMPORTANT NOTICE: IF YOU CAN’T QUIT THE FIRST TIME, TRY TRY AGAIN. And keep trying until you do. And keep trying. And keep trying. THE ULTIMATE SIN TO YOUR BODY, IS TO GIVE UP ON TRYING TO QUIT BECAUSE IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THE FIRST TIME (or second) (or third).
    IMPORTANT UPDATE!!! The friend I was just talking about, went upstate to visit a relative. Sometime during the visit, he keeled over and had to be rushed to emergency and was shortly operated on, for blockage of arteries to the heart, a problem directly attributable to smoking. He is fine now, but guess what? He is back to smoking again. It is soooooo frustrating to try to help people kick the habit, and only be able to watch them destroying themselves.
    PETS AND THE HABIT
    We have seen that second-hand smoke is as deadly to surrounding people as the original smoke is to the smoker. But pets are not affected by smoke because they are not human. PULEASE!! IF YOUR SMOKE KILLS OTHER PEOPLE, IT WILL CERTAINLY HARM YOUR PETS AS WELL. Unless your pet is a rock or alien or something else that doesn’t breath your smoke-filled air.
    CONCLUSION
    I’ve jawed long enough. The odds are that this writing on breaking the habit will not produce instance results. Is that being defeatist? Hardly! But, be realistic: you have been smoking for (probably) 10 years or better. And you are interested in quitting, or you wouldn’t have read this thing. But a 10 year habit does not just go away. You have paid many dollars to watch the smoke curl upward in a shaft of light, to see the glow of the tip in a darkened room, to damage your bod. You are intelligent enough to see that you ARE going to have to quit. Timing is important. Pick a time when you expect minimal stress and go for it. If you need patches or pills or a large mallet across the forehead, you are still not ready. Your strength must come from within. Remember, your success is dependant entirely on your desire to increase your health and years. If you are quitting because someone is badgering you about it, and for no other reason, lots of luck; that is a difficult road to follow.
    What I am most interested in is indelibly inscribing on your frontal lobes that smoking will affect your quality of life - until you quit, and that you must convince yourself that this is an absolute truth. And once you have ‘discovered’ this fact, you must not allow yourself to forget it. Psychologists refer to this as ‘reinforcement’: constantly reminding ourselves that ‘smoking is bad for our health’, ‘smoking is bad for other people’s (who we are close to) health, smoking is detrimental to our pet’s health, and on and on. For how long, do we have to keep convincing ourselves? Basically, as long as we wish to remain healthy. Because the Joe Camel ads on the Tube, in the newspapers, and magazines have become very sophisticated. The cigarette companies know how to pull our strings without us ever realizing it is happening. It is called subliminal advertising and you and I (and especially our youth) are being manipulated into believing that there is nothing wrong with smoking: that beautiful people smoke and to be like them, you must puff away also. I see a major portion of the movies being produced today and have noticed that even the stars (more and more) are shown smoking at some point during the flick. Advertising at it’s finest. It is the American Way. With a budget of millions, what defense is there?
    Want to know something? You’ve seen the “Warning” on the side of the pack of cigarettes, right? Since the government forced the tobacco companies to put that label on, smoking has drastically decreased. NO SIR, NOT ON YOUR LIFE!! Smoking has actually increased! Go figure.
    I am a people watcher. In the last 5 years, we are seeing more and more young people with cigarettes in their hands. I’m talking about 12 and 13 year olds. Our soeiety has formed laws about selling cigs to minors and the results are laughable. If anything, telling them that they shouldn’t smoke has INCREASED their motivation to do so. Of course, when I was that age, I did exactly what my elders told me to do: HA HA HA HA HA.
    As a last favor, I would ask anyone who has read this essay, what their opinion is as to it’s effectiveness and what improvements could be made to increase it’s impact. If I have insulted or belittled the reader who is trying to quit, it may make you uncomfortable and may not like me for it, but you will not readily forget it: or hopefully the attendant material. If you have fallen asleep while reading it, something has to be changed.
    GOOD LUCK!!
    William

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    First Name____________ Age_____ Sex M F Race_____________
    Occupation________________ Marital Status Married Single Committed
    Number of Years You Smoked______
    At What Age Did You Start?______
    (If You Quit) At What Age Did You Quit?_______
    Briefly State Why You Quit_______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________
    (If You Have Not Quit) How Many Times Have You Tried (to quit)?_______
    Relations Who Smoked Before You Started Smoking Mother Father Sister Brother Friends Other_________
    Describe the Situation When You Had Your First Cigarette?
    _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________
    Are There Other Smokers in Your Immediate Family? YES NO
    If You Have Quit, Do You Still Crave For a Cigarette? YES NO
    Would You Encourage Your Children to Start Smoking? YES NO
    Would You Encourage Any Young Person to Start the Habit? YES NO
    Why?____________________________________________________
    I Would Change This Questionaire By Adding or Deleting the Following Questions.____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________
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