Show FROM I I III I Il I ONE CELL Hy fly Marie L L. L Godfrey Uintah Unit President American Cancer Society Quit smoking clinics successful Recent government surveys indicate that there is an increasingly increasingly increasingly in in- negative attitude toward cigarette smoking even among smokers However the surveys also report that giving up cigarettes is not easy Nine of ten smokers in the sample had tried unsuccessfully to kick the habit or would try if an easy way to quit existed Going it alone is usually especially difficult so the American Cancer Society has developed a group approach which has been highly su such t ul The value of the smoking quit-smoking clinics is largely in the thep p psychological help and reinforcement reinforcement rein rein- that smokers get from meeting and talking with I others who share th the problem Through the help of a moderator who has quit smoking and a group discussion of smoking problems each m member attempts to change his behavior The clinics are basically restraining programs composed composed composed com com- posed of 8 to 18 persons They meet two days a week over a four week period Each session lasts 2 hours for a total of 16 hours The program is is divided into three phases Sessions 4 1 are devoted to allowing the participants participants participants par par- the opportunity of self self- appraisal by exposing them to techniques developed by previous smokers Phase two sessions 8 5 follows an experimental 48 hours off cigarettes and is geared to the individual adjusting adjusting ad ad- to the solutions of his stopping relying heavily on group interaction and support 1 1 Tile The third hird ph phs phase s the program It is an op- op group to show its strength by organizing and planning its own methods for staying slaying off cigarettes This particular aspect of the program has been shown to firing bring success to as high as 80 percent Surprisingly enough a sincere sincere sin sincere sin sin- cere desire to quit is not required inquired for success Many people have gone to the first session out of curiosity and found bound themselves successful quitters at al the end of the program The advantages of the quit quit- smoking clinics are arc several they are free local and highly successful If youre you're interested in smoking quit-smoking clinics call Hugh Knapp at days evenings |