ribbon.jpg Mark Twain said, “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times.” If you smoke, the American Cancer Society invites you to quit one more time, if only for 24 hours, during the Great American Smokeout, GASO, Nov. 15.

GASO has been going on nationally since 1977, and that’s all there is to it: for just one day, don’t smoke.

Is it really worthwhile to quit just for one day? Edwina “Eddie” Reeves, certified tobacco treatment specialist at CHINS, says, “People who quit during the Great American Smokeout are winners because they learn that they can do without the nicotine. If they quit for one day they prove to themselves that they have the power over the nicotine.”

Twain also said, “It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep.” By following Twain’s simple rule you can easily handle one-third of the 24 hours. Only 16 hours to go!

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