23-05-2012, 04:05 PM
Smoking Kills
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Statistics
Canadians smoke more than 1.6 billion cigarettes each year.
Retail sales are more than $330 million dollars each year.
Tobacco smoke kills over 37,000 people in Canada each year.
A Canadian dies every 12 minutes due to a tobacco related disease.
Every eight seconds, someone in the world dies from tobacco use.
Driving Forces
Are forces that push an individual in the direction that causes change to occur.
In this case, to quit smoking.
Restraining Forces
Forces that cause the individual to counter act the driving forces or oppose change.
In this case, continue on smoking.
Making the Change
Involves altering an individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviour.
Smokers must remember it will not happen over night.
A lot of patience is required. Keep a positive attitude.
Many methods will be attempted: nicotine patch, nicotine gum, cold turkey and so forth before successfully finding a method that works.