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Show Help kick habit While the nation has just celebrated the Anniversary An-niversary of its independence in-dependence on July 4, millions of citizens are struggling to gain their independence from a habit harmful to their health, safety and bank accounts. The Utah Lung Association offers help to these smokers who need assistance in achieving their freedom from cigarettes. According to federal statisticians, about 27 percent of the more than 54 million adult smokers try to give up smoking during any given year. More than 50 million have succeeded, 95 percent of whom did it on their own. "That's why the American Lung Association designed a new 2()-day self-help plan to stop smoking," said Franklin K. Brough, Executive Director of the I 'tah Lung Association, recently. "Titled Freedom From Smoking, the program is comprised of two attractive, at-tractive, lull-color, self-help self-help manuals available from the Lung Association," Brough said. The first manual takes the smoker through an intelligent, step-by-step J smoking cessation program. Certain daily I learning activities ready t the smoker to stop smoking cold turkey on day 7, or to go on to day 17 , in a withdrawal method. 3 The second manual , teaches recent quitters to 1 stay off of cigarettes by t spending 20 minutes a 1 day in a series of ac- 1 tivities and self-rewards 1 designed to maintain the nonsmoking habit. ltP helps the individual B J anticipate situations I - likely to produce strong I - cravings for a cigarette- I and then to find non-1 5 smoking ways of dealing I with them. ., I |