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Seven Sizzling Ways to Stop Smoking



Quitting smoking is one of the most daunting challenges you'll face in your life. It's an addiction that is both physical and psychological, but quitting smoking can be done. In fact, you'll have plenty of company: 1 million Americans quit every year, and almost 50 million Americans are former smokers.

You've seen the warnings. Heard the discussions. Received the advice. Listened to your kids nag you about it. You know you should quit smoking, but you never seem to get around to it.

Well, now is the time to get around to it.

"You know, there's no magic bullet, no device that will make it easy," says Jenny Duffey, who smoked for 13 years before quitting in 1989, and has written a book and taught seminars on quitting. "You have to want to quit—really want to quit—before you can do it."

There are certainly plenty of reasons to quit when you consider smoking's fatal link with lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease, and the harmful effects of second-hand smoke on your family. Even the tobacco companies admit that there might be a relationship between smoking and death.

Yet quitting is one of the most daunting challenges you'll face in your life.