Stop Making Resolutions and Quit
The New Year is here and most people probably made at least one resolution to help make themselves better in the New Year. Whether it is to exercise, lose weight, start a new hobby or quit smoking, everybody has something they want to add or subtract from their life. New Years resolutions however, are known to be broken. In fact according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, if making a New Year?s resolution for 2006 is your only strategy to quit smoking, your chance of success is just 1 in 20. Indeed, this represents a 95% failure rate. If you do not at some point come up with an effective action plan, you will likely keep smoking until it kills you. Nearly half of all adult smokers are destined to smoke themselves to death, each an average of 15 years early.
For many smokers, quitting ?cold turkey? is next to impossible. Accordingly, the ?quit smoking? industry has grown to a billion-dollar-a-year business, with products ranging from antidepressant pills to nicotine replacement therapy like patches or gum, to newer experimental drugs. But to many people, it does not make sense to use yet more drugs in order to quit smoking. An alternative can be found in a relatively new class of products for quitting smoking of which most people are unaware. These products, called Smoking Cessation Devices, enable people to wait longer and longer between cigarettes, so that they can gradually wean themselves from their addiction. The problem is that the smoking cessation devices that have been on the market so far have been inconvenient to use.
Brady Development of Avon, CT reports that you can effectively and conveniently alleviate the irritable effects of nicotine withdrawal by using their new Linkman Habit Reversal Tool. The battery-powered device is shaped like a cigarette for a placebo effect, but is small enough to be worn as a pendant or carried on a keychain. To use the Linkman, you double-click a clear button on the end to request permission to smoke. If you haven?t waited long enough between cigarettes, this button blinks red, indicating that you must fight the urge to smoke for a little while longer. There is no penalty for asking too early. So, for people who can?t seem to quit cold turkey, and don?t want to use yet more drugs to help them keep their New Year?s Resolutions, there is an effective alternative. And because it is reliable, convenient, and permission-based, there is an even greater chance that the Linkman will save more lives.
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