Would YOU like to feel healthier, breathe easier, have more energy and save money?
Your Journey to a Smoke-Free Life Begins Here! The QuitSmart Program combines powerful treatments to help you break free from cigarettes.
Why Choose QuitSmart?
- Ease Off Nicotine: Switch to cigarette brands that deliver less and less nicotine. We call it warm chicken quitting.
- Consider Stop-Smoking Medicine: Choose supplements or from 7 medicines that can keep you comfortable as you quit.
- Take a New Look at the Patch: Discover a new way to use nicotine patches that dramatically increases your chance of success.
- Use Your Mind to Help: See yourself as a comfortable nonsmoker rather than as a smoker deprived of cigarettes.
- Use a Self-Hypnosis CD: Relax as you develop the respect for your body that naturally leads to freedom from cigarettes.
- Break the Smoking Habit: Your smoking habit may be strong, but you can outsmart it with six simple techniques.
What’s Included in the QuitSmart Program?
The QuitSmart program includes an innovative Stop Smoking Kit to help you quit. It is easy to use, interactive, and informative. The QuitSmart Kit includes:
- An informative guidebook.
- A relaxing hypnosis CD.
- A patented cigarette substitute.
QuitSmart was created by the director of the Duke Stop Smoking Clinic, Dr. Robert Shipley. You are assured of high-quality professional help, based on solid research. QuitSmart produced impressive quit rates in studies published in Veterans Health System Journal and Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. You can trust QuitSmart to help you quit smoking.
Ready to Begin?
If you are completing a virtual QuitSmart class with Bella Medical Associates, purchase your QuitSmart Kit with CD or Download Card online at QuitSmart Shop for your upcoming class. If your class is in person, do not purchase a QuitSmart Kit. You will receive one during the class.
Benefits of quitting that you may notice right away.
- Food tastes better.
- Your sense of smell returns to normal.
- Your breath, hair, and clothes smell better.
- Your teeth and fingernails stop yellowing.
- Ordinary activities (E.g. light housework, walking a short distance, or climbing stairs) leave you less out of breath.
- You can be in smoke-free buildings without having to go outside to smoke.
Benefits of Quitting Smoking Over Time
It’s never too late to quit smoking or using tobacco. The sooner you quit, the more you can reduce your chances of getting cancer and other diseases.
Within minutes of smoking your last cigarette, your body begins to recover:
- 20 Minutes after quitting: Your heart rate and blood pressure will drop.
- A Few days after quitting: The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal. Your breathing becomes easier as bronchial tubes relax. Your lung function improves and body energy increases.
- 2 weeks to 3 months after quitting: Your circulation improves and your lung function increases.
- 1 to 12 months after quitting: Coughing and shortness of breath decrease. Tiny hair-like structures (called cilia) that move mucus out of the lungs start to regain normal function, increasing their ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce the risk of infection.
- 1 to 2 years after quitting: The excess risk of coronary heart disease is half of that of a continuing smoker’s risk and your risk of heart attack drops dramatically.
- 5 years after quitting: Your risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, and voice box (larynx) is about half the risk of a continuing smoker’s risk. Your stroke risk can fall to that of a non-smoker after 2-5 years. Cervical cancer rates fall to that of a non-smoker.
- 10 years after quitting: Your risk of lung cancer is about half that of a person who is still smoking (after 10 to 15 years). Your risk of cancer of the bladder, esophagus, pancreas, and kidney decreases.
- 15 years after quitting: Your risk of coronary heart disease is close to that of a non- smoker.
