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tober 3 in the .Clinton public Hospital con-`
ference room. It consists of five evenings
and a follow up evening inNo ber:
A number of speakers will be featured,
covering subjects from the non-fatal effects
of smoking with Dr. T.A. Steed of Clinton to
the first hand experiences of Dr. R.G.
Lomas of Goderich as a former smoker. Dr.
Lomas will also be discussing the motiva-
tion behind smokingg and quitting.
Stan Hill of the TJniversity of Western On-
tario will also be speaking about the
substitution of physical activities for smok-
ing and another speaker may be featured. A
variety of films and handout material will
also be included.
"We want to create a j lot of self-
Smoki
rograal has been bls op two
eveloped byt of a health• organ
tions.The PorcupineHe
>n area and tike-
teragency Council on li,m0l .
provided some of thebasis for tie cou
with the Larnbton agency claiming, a 6o ll"
cent success rate. This is an outstan
rate as Most programs can claim a 00 to
per cent rate of success.
However, the health unit employee noted
that, "if the motivation is not within them
(participants), then these tools won't help.
It's like fitness. Somebody can tell you to get
fit but if you're not motivated..."
Another clinic was held earlier in Huron
County and "the evaluations were pretty
positive at the end," she noted.
The upcoming program will begin on
Wednesday, October 3 at the Clinton Public
Hospital, beginning at 7:30 pari. For more
information, or to pre -register, call 482.3416.
g seen as weak
in modern society
"It used to be you were on the outside
looking in if you weren't a smoker," said
Milt Vester, 43, who, like 34 million other
Americans, has become an ex-smoker.
But today it's smokers who often are on
the outside looking in - banished to porches
by hosts, to parking lots by employers who
prohibit smoking, to hallways outside enter-
tainment events by laws against smoking.
"More and more people coming in for
treatment talk about being social pariahs,"
said psychologist Bruce Hansen of
Dependency Interventions in Berkley, Calif.
"This is becoming a very powerful kind of
force, much more powerful than health war-
nings at this point."
In 1977, psychologist Ellen Gritz wrote
that to reduce smoking, society's attitude
must change from tolerance and acceptance
to disapproval and rejection. That's what
many believe has happened.
Smokers realize their habit has come to be
regarded by many as a public nuisance, not
a private pleasure. A Gallup survey this
year found 64 per cent of smokers as well as
84 per cent of non-smokers believed it was
hazardous to the health of non-smokers.
No smoking signs, some more politely
phrased than others, have sprouted on the
landscape like dandelions in a lawn.
When the first health warning came three
decades ago, few non-smokers had the
audacity to complain about a stranger's
cigarette. Now the smokers often hesitate to
light up without.asking if those around them
mind - and the answer is often "yes".
In the Gallup survey for the American
Lung Association, 82 per cent of non-
smokers thought smokers should refrain
from smoking around non-smokers. But so
did 55 per cent of smokers.
In the late 1960s, the non-smokers' rights
movement was born when John Banzhaf
sought application of the fairness doctrine to
cigarette commercials and no smoking sec-
tions on airplanes.
In 1969, he began asking about the effect of
smoke on non-smokers. To many non-
smokers, the idea that they had the right to
breathe clean air unpolluted by tobacco
smoke "was a totally revolutionary con-
cept".
Then came more evidence that non-
smokers, especially those with heart or
respiratory trouble, may suffer more than
eye or sinus irritation.
"Smoke given off by a cigarette .into the
air contains known cancer causing
substances, some of them in higher concen-
trations than in the smoke inhaled directly
by the, smoker," concluded the surgeon
general.
This evidence happened to coincide with a
health and fitness boom.
"It not only yellowed my walls, dirtied my
draperies and burned holes in my shirts, but
it really irritated my child's sinuses and
nostrils," said Sandy Caruso of Manhattan
Beach who quit Feb. 24 after smoking more
than 20 years.
Implicit in the changing image of smoking
from sophisticated pleasure to smelly habit
was a changing image of the smoker from
the strong Marlboro man to weak-willed or
addicted. After all,. if 34 million could quit,
why not you?
A blunt assessment came from a tobacco
company's advertising agency. It was
quoted hi a confidential section of a 1981
Federal Trade Commission report:
. "Smokers have to face the fact that they are
illogical, irrational and stupid. People find it
hard to go throughout life with such
negative presentation and evaluation of
self."
Want to kick the habit? The Huron County Health Unit is sponsoring the five week course
for smokers who Want to quit. The course will be held at Clinton Public Hospital, starting
on October 3 at 7:30 p.m. It will feature several guest speakers and films. For more infor-
mation, contact the Health Unit. Registration is limited.
Your smoking may be
harming others' health
That annoying smoke which a smoker
puffs out, called mainstream smoke, is far
less dangerous to non-smokers than the
tobacco smoke which is released directly
into the air. Sidestream smoke contains
twice the tar and the nicotine, five times the
carbon monoxide and 50 times the ammonia
of mainstream smoke. Smokers, are not
only harming their own health, but also the
health of non-smokers. For more
information on smoking, contact the Huron
Chapter of the Ontario Heart Foundation -
Joan Van Den Broeck at 524-2845 or Wallace
Montgomery at 482-9368.
Addictive poison
Carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, pyrene
and nicotine — , inhaled purposely for
pleasure?
It's called smoking, but it's not a pleasure,
it's an addiction.
The amount of nicotine in a pack of
cigarettes, given by a needle -unto' the
bloodstream, is in itself lethal enough to
cause instant' death in. an adult. Smoking is
addictive and self-poisoning. If you smoke,
isn't this reason enough to quit?
Kicking the habit
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smoking causes withdrawal symptoms for a
short time. Excess hunger is one symptom.'
This happens because the stomach is
readjusting itself after years of swallows_
saliva, ladened with nicotine and other
nerve killing chemicals. An increase in
appetite is normal, but an uneasy feeling in
the stomach may make you feel hungry
when you really aren't. A glass of water or
grapefruit juice should relieve this feeling,
without extra calories. For more
information on smoking contact the Huron
County Chapter of the Ontario Heart
Foundation - Joan Van Den Broeck at 524-
2845 or Wallace Montgomery at 482-9368.
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jatelY PAM_deaths in
Pare attributed to the efects of smoking,
Many more smokers live on, with crippled
1 and strained: hearts.
And, despite the health warnings,
cigarette cons ' .,tion in Canada is still in-
creasing. A,cco ' [ 0. to Statistics Canada,
someA per cent of adult Canadians, aged 15
and over, smoke. Total yearly consumption
in Canada alone is now approximately 64.5
billion cigarettes.
Nicotine
The popularity of cigarettes has made
them one of the most widely used non-
medical drugs in North America.
Clinical evidence suggests that nicotine,
present in inhaled tobacco smoke, causes
various physiological effects. Physical
dependence on nicotine is a major reason
why people smoke and find it so difficult to
stop.
In the •1950s, cigarette smoking was
thought to be simply a psychosocial habit.
But today, it is considered to be a drug
dependence because of the withdrawal
symptoms which smokers often experience
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' W.ith4rawal Can Be Severe
Theerity of the withdrawal s
in smokrs who try to stop i g is
dependent on the degree to which they are
addicted, A Swedish psychologist found that
one of the best indicators of levels of -addic-
tion. was when smokers smoked their first
cigarette of the day. Those who lit up before
getting out of bed generally had the severest
withdrawal symptoms.
But, cigarette smoking also involves
psychological dependence. Smoking cessa-
tion not only interrupts the supply of
nicotine demanded by the body, but also
robs the smoker of a pleasurable habit,
deeply rooted in daily activities.
A craving for tobacco is usually the most
common withdrawal symptom. This crav-
ing reaches its peak during the first 24 hours
following initial cessation and then gradual-
ly becomes less throughout the following
week. But, it can return again, often per-
sisting for up to eight weeks. With some
smokers, this craving for nicotine can recur
for years after they've quit.
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