Day 1 Stop Smoking Lessons
Welcome to "Day One" of the rest of your life! Welcome to Joel's Daily Quitting Lesson Guide. Below are links to 2 hours and 55 minutes of YouTube videos that will aid in navigating your first 24 hous of recovery. Following the videos is "Supplemental Reading." And beneath the reading is our "Daily Guide" with a link to tomorrow's recommended Day Two quit smoking lessons.
If you arrived on quitting "Day One" be sure to review our pre-quitting-day lessons too, as they share important foundation insights.
Yes, three hours is a heap to get through. But don't fret if you can't get through it all. Instead, take comfort in the fact that it is impossible to relapse so long as all nicotine remains on the outside.
Day One Videos
"Why did I ever start smoking?" 08:19
"I know I will quit smoking!" 06:30
"I smoke because I like smoking" 09:41
Lung cancer: 18:48
The Palmolive bottle demonstration: 07:45
See how smoking destroys the lungs: 04:00
Feel what it's like to breathe with emphysema: 08:47
Heart and circulatory diseases: 19:18
Premature deaths caused by smoking: 12:34
How did the former-smokers you know quit? 05:10
Why do smokers smoke? 18:08
Quitting by gradual withdrawal: 07:13
Why I recommend cranberry juice when first quitting smoking: 03:36
"I'll be a nervous wreck forever if I quit" 10:16
Common symptoms: 05:55
Telling others that you have quit smoking: 09:03
Carrying cigarettes: 06:45
Keeping cigarettes to deal with stress: 04:18
Supplemental Day One Reading
Quit Cold Turkey!
Minimizing the Most Common Side Effects to Quitting Smoking
Getting vigilant and staying vigilant with the concept of addiction
Daily Quitting Lesson Guide
Joel Spitzer has provided smoking cessation and prevention services since 1972, first as a volunteer speaker and then a member of the professional staff of the American Cancer Society. Later he served as smoking programs coordinator for the Rush North Shore Medical Center's Good Health Program, and then as a consultant for the Skokie Illinois Health Department and the Evanston Department of Health and Human Services, providing state funded smoking cessation clinics and seminars for the two Chicago suburban communities. After nearly 50 years of service, 20 as education director and consultant to WhyQuit, Joel retired on December 26, 2020.
