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Ask Joel your quit smoking question
WhyQuit News - Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 0600 a.m. EST
Do you have a quitting question? Now you can have it answered online for free by one of America’s leading smoking cessation counselors, Joel Spitzer of Chicago. The MSN based question and answer forum is called "Ask Joel" – www.MSNusers.com/AskJoel . You'll likely not only hear form Joel, he's backed-up by a small army of long-term ex-smokers who've mastered his teachings.
Joel has been providing 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, where he conducted cessation and prevention programs from 1978 until 2000.
Today Joel provides smoking cessation and prevention services for the Evanston and Skokie Health Departments. He also serves as education director at Freedom from Tobacco. Freedom is a 3,500 member free online nicotine dependency recovery classroom and peer support forum linked to WhyQuit.com, the Internet's leading cold turkey quitting resource.
Over the past 33 years Joel has presented more than 325 six-session stop smoking clinics spanning 13 days, more than 570 single session seminars, and has spoken at more than 30 conferences on smoking and health. He has been heard on numerous talk radio broadcasts, appeared on CNBC and Fox News, and has been quoted in news articles across the nation.
But Joel's greatest influence has been online, where since 2000 his collection of 100 free quitting articles (known as Joel's Library - WhyQuit.com/joel ) have been shared at support groups and message boards across the Internet. Entitled "Never Take Another Puff", the articles are also available in PDF book format (1.2MB). More than 126,000 copies of "Never Take Another Puff" have been downloaded since September, 2005.
After dealing with thousands and thousands of smokers one-on-one, there may still be a few quitting questions that Joel has yet to field but probably not many.
Read what the Senn High School director had to say about Joel on February 7, 1978.
Anyone who knows Joel will quickly recognize that he's changed little in 28 years.
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Contact info:
Joel Spitzer, Evanston, Illinois
(847) 328-7229
Director Freedom from Tobacco
Evanston and Skokie Illinois Departments of Health cessation clinics and seminars director
Related Reading
- "Never Take Another Puff" - Joel's free 149 page quit smoking book in PDF format. It's a collection 98 short quitting articles on almost every cessation topic imaginable.
- Joel's Library - An HTML version of Joel Spitzer's 149 page free quitting book, which includes a few more articles, his most recent additions.
- WhyQuit.com - The Internet's oldest forum devoted to the art, science and psychology of abrupt nicotine cessation (cold turkey quitting), the quitting method responsible for roughly 90% of all long-term successful U.S. quitters.
- Freedom from Tobacco - The Internet's only 100% nicotine-free quit smoking forum. Actively managed by Joel, readers will find 275,000 archived member posts indexed on 22 subject matter message boards.
- Nicotine Cessation Topic Index - An alphabetical subject matter index to hundreds of nicotine cessation support group discussions at Freedom from Tobacco.
- WhyQuit on Youth - Explore WhyQuit's youth smoking prevention work where the most recent additions are peer to peer lessons from young smokers to teens and tweens.
Last Modified December 10, 2005 0713 EST
