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"Tobacco use is a major health and economic problem for employers and their workers. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, employee and dependent tobacco use costs U.S. companies an estimated $167 billion each year in direct medical costs and lost productivity due to morbidity. Smoking costs businesses even more when absenteeism, lost productivity due to smoke breaks and workers compensation claims are included. Lost productivity is 75% higher for smokers versus non-smokers and annual workers compensation costs are up to 12 times higher for smokers than non-smokers.

... About 55% of employers take advantage of their employee assistance plan, health plan or wellness vendor for smoking cessation programs and counseling, 15% use on-site professionals, and only 15% utilize community resources" Source: Midwest Business Group on Health

Associations Between Tobacco Marketing and Use Among Urban Youth in ... (Monika Arora, MS; K. Srinath Reddy, MD; Melissa H. Stigler, PhD; Cheryl L. Perry, PhD, FAAHB) Am J Health Behav. 2008;32(3):283-294

Physical Self-perception, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Smoking Behavior (Sean R. Stickney, PhD; David R. Black, PhD, MPH, FAAHB)  Am J Health Behav. 2008;32(3):295-304

Prevalence of Tobacco Use Among Students Aged 13-15 Years ... "If effective programs are not developed, implemented, and enforced, morbidity and mortality attributed to tobacco use will surely increase." Am J Health Behav. 2008;32(4):438-445

Stop smoking for good: 90 minute session uses clinical hypnosis, an article in The Beacon News, a Member of the Sun-Times News Group

Can Hypnosis Snuff Out a Smoker's Cigarette Habit? New study finds hypnotism is an effective smoking-cessation technique. June 2008, US News & World Report

"Smokers have tried nicotine patches, gum, even antidepressants in attempts to quit. Now researchers at UC San Francisco find that hypnosis may be a good alternative to those trying to quit smoking." KABC-TV Los Angeles June 2008

"Hypnosis study seeks smokers who want to quit. The University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center is recruiting men and women smokers, ages 18 and up, who want to quit." The Salinas Californian June 2008

Try hypnosis. "Hypnosis is a highly effective, safe, and quick way to stop smoking," Drop Smoking Without Picking Up Weight, CBS News article by Suzanne Wright

New Report: Increasing Cigarette Tax Will Reduce Smoking, Save Lives and Save Money

The Metro London reported that a Publican was fined £500 plus £2000 costs for flouting the No Smoking Ban.

'Can Hypnosis Help Smokers Quit?' 
“Smokers in this study learn how to use self-hypnosis skills to strengthen their resolve, particularly at the moment of a craving,” said researcher Tim Carmody, PhD, director of health psychology at SFVAMC and UCSF clinical professor of psychiatry. 
University of California News 2002-01-18

"I was amazed when my husband, who had smoked for 50 years, quit cold turkey in 1994 after one session with a hypnotist and a few sticks of nicotine gum." Trying to Break Nicotine's Grip, New York Times, 20 May 2008

"If you're determined to quit, you have many options - acupuncture, hypnosis, nicotine gum and support groups." Drug no guarantee you'll kick smoking habit, By Dr. Weil, Health & Fitness, The Rocky Mountain News

Link between initial smoking pleasure, lifetime smoking habits and variation in nicotine receptor gene: A mechanism for explaining increased disease risk, proposed by one of the cancer genetics researchers, is the possibility that certain chemicals, for instance N-nitrosonornicotine in tobacco smoke, act on nicotine receptors in the lung to produce cancer-causing changes – a process known as tumorigenesis. University of Michigan Health System, 8 August 2008

Doctors give the skinny on longevity - Losing weight, eating healthy and quitting smoking are the biggest factors to leading a longer life, doctors say. Galveston County Daily News

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