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Show i Page 12 October 1972 UTAH WOMANS REVIEW WOMEN ARE KICKING i ; -- .1 ?- - ': ' ' ' .-21 :$- - - ' OJHZ FIND OUT WHY AND HOW '. i j',W Heres help from your ' n : , ? Tuberculosis & Respiratory Disease ' "V W Association. 4rr:.V ' i ' i ' ;V y:, . .juwaaI f ' . f " ' . ',j - I you don't smoke, please give this newspaper to a friend who needs it. If SUPPORT YOUR XMAS SEAL CAMPAIGN IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND BREATH UBERCULOSIS and RESPIRATORY DISEASE ASSOCIATION of UTAH NTA THE XMAS SEAL ASSOCIATION 1 1616 SOUTH 11TH EAST, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TELEPHONE 484-445- 84105 6 A ' the photographer astts: How did you manage to kick the habit? Mary Badaick, Lansing, Michigan I eliminated smoking episodes one by one; and I trained myself not to smoke. The first thing I eliminated was smoking in my car. I could smoke any time of the day, a thousand cigarettes if I wanted to, but smoking in the car was just out of the question. Then the next cigarette I eliminated was the one before work and breakfast; smoking any other time of the day was just fine and if I wanted to double up that was OK. One by one I went through and gradually eliminated every single smoking situation. Ada Brown, Gretna, Louisiana didn't have any to smoke. My husband does smoke and the first couple of weeks I was sneaking around getting butts out of ashtrays. I decided this really wasnt doing me any good, I was still smoking. My husband knew I was trying to quit smoking, so he would hide his cigarettes from me, and after a while I really didn't have any cigarettes to smoke. So I just didn't smoke anymore. By not buying them, I Jane is 14 years old. Her mother smokes too. Judy Haig, Seattle program sponsored by the TB-R- D association in our high school was my key to kicking the habit. They gave us a forehead sticker for going without cigarettes the first few weeks, and the impression stuck with me. It was much easier to quit than I expected, especially quitting with a group. Now I try breathing deeply whenever the urge strikes and don't have to stock up on breath mints. I just feel so much better in every way not being tied to the weed. The kick-- it Annette Goodrich, New York City I had dinner with a man who was speaking about a woman friend of his. He said she was one of the most elepnt and immaculate women he had ever seen, but she had a very dirty habit: she smoked. This made a tremendous impression on me, suddenly seeing smoking as so Right away I started looking at ashtrays with butts and thinking how dirty it all was. After about a week, I just couldn't smoke anymore. It was as simple as that, and I stopped. Why is it? During the last 1 5 years, the percentage of women smokers increased. Rates for men dropped off sharply. Nobody knows why. Somebody out there was watching. Like the cigarette companies. Now theyve put it together. For the first time, they've developed cigarettes exclusively for women. Feminine, flowered cigarettes and brassy, liberated pitches. Women's magazines got a bonanza after ads were banned from radio and TV. In the first three months after the ban, the number of cigarette ads quadrupled at Cosmopolitan, the Ladies Home Journal, and Woman's to an identical period in the previous year. McCalls, Red book, and Family Circle also tripled their ads. Women who don't smoke or are trying to quit need true grit and guts. To fend off an advertising bombardment aimed straight at them. Day-comp- ared |