Smoking Cessation   Tags: cigarettes, smoking_cessation, tobacco  

"Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times." 

- Mark Twain

As of July 5, 2010, most indoor facilities in Wisconsin, including workplaces, restaurants, and bars are required to be 100% smoke free.  Visit Smoke-Free Wisconsin for more information.

Use the tabs above to find resources to help you quit smoking. Each tab introduces a range of resources from print to electronic but is not intended to be exhaustive. Please contact Martha Jermé if you have comments, questions or suggestions.

• Tobacco use causes cancer, heart disease, and lung diseases such as emphysema, bronchitis and chronic airway obstruction.
• Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths in the U.S., or about 443,000 deaths per year.
• An estimated 49,000 deaths and more than $10 billion in health care expenditures in the U.S. each year are the result of secondhand smoke exposure.
• In the United States, cigarette smoking costs more than $193 billion annually.
• On average worldwide, smokers die 13 - 14 years earlier than non-smokers.
• Smoking during pregnancy causes pregnancy complications, premature births, low birth weight infants, stillbirth and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS.)

Smoking and Tobacco Use Fast Facts.  (2011, March 21.)  Retrieved January 3, 2012 from http://cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/