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| Quit Tobacoo. Save Money. |
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The federal tobacco tax increased on April 1 by an additional 62 cents per pack. The financial impact on smokers should have people thinking twice about lighting up.
If you’d like to quit smoking, PEBB offers help through the Quit For Life Program from Free&Clear.
With personal help from a Quit Coach® you will make good decisions about medications, develop new thinking skills and learn how to behave differently in situations where you would normally use tobacco.
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Call today. It’s free. It’s confidential. It works!
1.866.QUIT.4.LIFE (866.784.8454)
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Note for Kaiser Members
Like all PEBB medical plans, Kaiser covers Chantix when it’s prescribed as part of the Quit for Life
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| Tobacco Quit Success |
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Members share inspiring achievements
I quit smoking on September 22, 2008, and if I were to measure my success monetarily, I'd estimate that I've saved close to $1,000 in that amount of time alone. It really hit home [when I calculated that] after making it one month without smoking, I had not smoked 1,240 cigarettes. To date I have not smoked approximately 3,960 cigarettes. Although smoking never stopped me from working out, running is MUCH easier now. In fact, I will be running my first marathon in the next few weeks.
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Here are some things that help:
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Increase your exercise to compensate for potential weight gains. Exercise helps to reduce stress and anxieties too.
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Think about the effort you've made to get this far and how you don't want to start over again. Every day you don't smoke is one more day under your belt.
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Try deep breathing exercises when you get the urge to smoke. Most of the time, the urges pass within a couple minutes.
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If you slip and end up smoking a cigarette—try, try again! Don't give up because you made one mistake. One puff or cigarette is better than going back to a pack-a-day smoker, right?
I wish the very best to all who are currently addicted and fighting the quitting battle. If I can do it, you can do it! — PEBB Member Your Benefit Board offers full support for your quitting process. Call Free and Clear and tell them you’re a PEBB member: 866-QUIT-4-LIFE (784-8454). Kaiser members, call your plan first, to make sure you get the maximum benefit.
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| Quit Smoking to Give Your Heart a Break |
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Smoking causes damage to your heart and can make heart disease worse. Quit smoking, today and give your heart a break.
When you stop smoking:
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You are less likely to die from heart disease the longer you stay quit.
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Your blood pressure and heart rate go down.
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You have less chance of getting a heart attack the longer you stay quit.
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The clogging of your blood vessels will not get worse and may get better over time.
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Your family and friends breathe cleaner air. They can also worry less about you and your health.
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The Free & Clear Quit For Life Program can help you quit successfully. The program’s professionally trained Quit Coaches know how hard it is to quit without help – many were former smokers themselves. With the Quit For Life Program, your chances of quitting successfully are six times better than quitting on your own.
To register, call 1-866-QUIT-4-LIFE (784-8454) or register online. Be sure to tell them you’re a PEBB member so you get the full benefit.
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| Quit for Life |
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If you use smokeless tobacco, you have every reason to quit – your family, your health and your wallet. Even if you’ve chewed for years, the benefits you’ll enjoy when you quit will begin immediately and continue for years to come. Call Free & Clear at 1-866-QUIT-4-LIFE to enroll today. Or enroll online with Free and Clear. Be sure to tell them you’re a PEBB member so you’ll get the full benefit.
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| Six times more likely to succeed with help! |
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Your Benefit Board sponsors the Free & Clear Quit for Life program to give you free resources — planning tools, counseling and nicotine replacement therapy — that may increase your chances of success.
Research shows you are six times more likely to succeed when you try to quit with help than when trying to quit "cold turkey." There is no right or wrong way to quit, but it does help to plan ahead - especially if you’ve tried before.
| Don’t wait for the New Year —call Free & Clear today at (866) QUIT-4-LIFE (866-784-8454). Or enroll online at www. freeclear.com/pebb. |
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