Setting up an Outdoor Smoking Area
Protecting your family and pets from second hand smoke as well as reducing the risk of smoking related fires in your homes can be achieved by smoking outside. Of course, the best option is to quit smoking but smoking outside the home is great starting point. You can make this easier for yourself by being prepared to go outside: keep an ashtray, an umbrella and some warm clothes by the door.
You could also try using nicotine replacement therapy (patches and gum) to help you avoid craving a cigarette while you are in your home. Talk to your Dr, pharmacist or Stop Smoking Wales adviser about using nicotine replacement therapy. You may find you can cut down the number of cigarettes you smoke and be able to quit altogether.
For more advice from Stop Smoking Wales call 0800 085 2219.
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Tobacco Industry quotes:
In 1973 a R.J. Reynolds executive was quoted as saying:
"It should be said that we are presently, and I believe unfairly, constrained from directly promoting cigarettes to the youth market. If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market. - Thus we need new brands designed to be particularly attractive to the young smoker, while ideally at the same time appealing to all smokers. Perhaps these questions may be best approached by consideration of factors influencing pre-smokers to try smoking, learn to smoke, and become confirmed smokers."
Smoking & Health
Smoking during pregnancy has been identified as a cause of cot death. The risk of cot death is approximately trebled in infants whose mothers smoke both during and after pregnancy. The more cigarettes smoked, the greater the risk.