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Smoking is nicotine addiction - It's a bad habit  

Do you realise that smoking lowers your immunity to illness and is bad for your health? You perhaps started smoking because you thought it was fashionable and macho! Maybe you had planned to stop burning your money but found that when you were stressed, cigarettes helped. Now you continue smoking because you can't help yourself. You not only have a conditioned response (a habit) to smoke when you are doing certain things, but you suspect that you are addicted to nicotine! . . .

When you quit, you will be assailed by cravings and urges to smoke again. Help is available from the Jamaica Cancer Society - 927 4265 and the Jamaica Coalition on Tobacco Control - 926 4378. There are physicians who are trained to help you stop smoking, like Dr Aldyth Buckland who provided much of the information for this article. She can be contacted at aldyth_buckland@yahoo.com. More help can be found at www.whyquit.com.

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