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American author and humorist Mark Twain once wrote, “To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I have done it a thousand times”. (see quotation a202 below)
The difficulty for most smokers who would prefer to be nonsmokers, is not stopping, but is staying stopped. Apart from the chemical addiction from nicotine found in tobacco products, smoking tobacco is a behaviour which is very hard to change.
Professional Performance Australia Director, Ian McKenzie, has been both a health educator, and a former smoker. Ian is very aware of the overwhelming evidence which is currently available regarding the dangers associated with tobacco use, and can identify with the difficulties many smokers have in ceasing smoking and staying stopped.
Ian has published several articles and web sites on tobacco use. One of these “Staying Stopped” www.stayingstopped.info, is full of strategies that many former smokers have found useful to quit the habit permanently. Health Professionals working with smokers (and/or clients with other harmful health habits), teachers working with students who smoke, and smokers themselves who wish to quit; will certainly find this site valuable. The site also links to several other useful sites and to motivational articles on the dangers of tobacco use.
Directors of Professional Performance Australia, Mel Phillips and Ian McKenzie are both qualified and registered facilitators to conduct “Fresh Start®”, quit smoking courses.
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