This document encourages readers to quit tobacco as a New Year's resolution for 2014. It states that quitting tobacco can save money, improve fitness, help with weight loss, and allow one to spend more time with family and friends. Resources are provided to help readers quit tobacco, including a website with tools, support messages, and coaches. Readers are encouraged to make 2014 the year they quit tobacco and improve their lives.

1. BREATHE
FREE IN 2014
Picture this: You’re surrounded by a crowd of
people and you join in the countdown until
midnight 3…2…1…Happy New Year! Confetti
is flying through the air and as you breathe into
your cheap noise maker, you realize you’re
winded – really winded. Let this be the last
breath you take with tobacco in your lungs.
2014 is a fresh slate; it’s a new year, a new you
and a new chance to breathe free from
tobacco.
As you’re thinking about what New Year’s
resolution you want to make in 2014, aiming to
quit tobacco is one of the best goals you can
set. This one New Year’s resolution can help
you achieve several other goals to improve
your life in 2014.
Save money. Quitting tobacco is a good way to stack up the 13.2 years of life, while female smokers lost an average of
cash. Smoking two packs a day at $5.50 per pack will cost 14.5 years of life compared to non-smokers.1 You’ve already
$3,967.20 in 2014. If you chew tobacco, eliminating a can a spent a good amount of time away from loved ones due to
day at $3.75 per can is a cost-savings of $1,368.75. deployment. Why risk losing any more time with them?
Improve your fitness score. When you quit tobacco, it’s UCanQuit2.org has tools, resources and information that
easier to reach your fitness goals, and taking a full breath won’t can help you become tobacco-free:
be nearly as difficult. Smoking is linked to lower scores on • Sign up for SmokefreeMIL to get support text messages sent running, push-ups and sit-ups. Dipping also impacts your directly to your phone.
fitness goals. Smokeless tobacco users usually ingest more • Chat live with tobacco-cessation coaches.
nicotine than smokers, and nicotine causes veins to narrow, • Use our support locator to find a quit program near you.
making it more difficult to get oxygen to the heart. Make 2014 a year you will always remember – the year you
Lose weight. Many believe that quitting tobacco means they were able to breathe free from tobacco and make improve-will
gain weight, but by focusing on eating right, many actually ments on every aspect of your life!
lose weight when they quit. Once you quit smoking, you’ll have more energy, be able to exercise more and getting to the gym References 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease will be easier. Control and Prevention, n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2013.
Spend more time with family and friends. The Center for http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm
Disease Control reports that male smokers lost an average of
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