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Joel Spitzer has provided smoking cessation and prevention services since 1972. Having started as a volunteer speaker and then a professional staff member of the American Cancer Society, he became smoking programs coordinator for the Rush North Shore Medical Center in Skokie, Illinois. Today Joel provides smoking cessation and prevention services for the Evanston and Skokie Health Departments while also serving as director of education at WhyQuit's Freedom from Tobacco, a free online nicotine dependency recovery forum.



Joel's Library is home to:


Never Take Another Puff




Joel's Reinforcement Articles

Why Do People Smoke?

The Costs

How to Quit

Relapse Prevention

What About Weight Gain?

Teen Smoking Prevention

Smoking: A Historical Perspective





"Never Take Another Puff"

Click here to download Joel's free 149 page quit smoking book in PDF format (1.35MB). Once opened be sure to click upon the "save" icon (the first icon on the far left) and save a copy to your computer.  You'll then be able to search, print and e-mail the book to all friends and family members who are smoke or chew nicotine.

We can not promise you that if you read Joel's entire book one time from cover to cover that you will succeed in quitting smoking. What we can promise is that you will learn how to quit and that you will never look at smoking the same again. Give this free book one full read and you will discover why a half million copies were downloaded from WhyQuit between 08/05 and 09/06.





Joel's Video Quit Smoking Lessons

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Video Title and Link
Size
Time
Added
"Why did I ever start smoking?" 1.23mb 03:22 09/27/06
Learning how to inhale 1.70mb 04:38 10/02/06
How did the people you know quit smoking? 1.90mb 05:10 09/27/06
"I'll be a nervous wreck forever if I quit smoking" 2.01mb 05:27 09/27/06
"I have to smoke when I talk on the phone" 2.77mb 07:30 09/27/06
"I can't drink alcohol without a cigarette" 1.36mb 03:43 09/27/06
How I started running quit smoking clinics 3.87mb 10:32 09/28/06
"I'm not joining this clinic" 4.62mb 12:33 09/27/06
"Is this a symptom of quitting smoking?" 1.91mb 05:13 09/27/06
Common Symptoms 2.18mb 05:55 09/28/06
Blood Sugar Symptoms 2.03mb 05:31 09/28/06
The Emotional Stages of Loss 3.05mb 08:18 09/28/06
Who wants to go back to smoking? 2.61mb 07:05 09/28/06
"I don't feel any better since I quit smoking!" 3.18mb 08:39 09/28/06
"I know I will quit smoking!" 2.37mb 06:30 09/29/06
"What bad habit should I replace it with?" 1.86mb 05:04 10/02/06
Quitting may lead to other self-improvements 1.13mb 03:07 10/02/06



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