World’s First Smoking Control Program Launched On-Line - Based on 'Reducing Before Quitting.'
World’s first Smoking Control Program launched on-line; based on 'reducing before quitting.' - 18 year success of corporate program leads to first on-line smoking cessation program for individuals. - Reducing tobacco use by 50% reduces risk of lung cancer and other smoking-related health effects. - Every ‘failed’ attempt to quit brings the smoker closer to quitting for good.
LAS VEGAS, NV (PRWEB) June 21, 2004 -- North America's first and most
successful smoking control program believes that you can log on in order to stop
lighting up. Smoking Control Systems, a new division of 18-year-old Addiction
Management Systems Inc. (AMS) of Dallas and Toronto, today launched the world’s
first inter-active on-line smoking control program for individual smokers.
AMS' success has come from empowering more than 75,000 Americans and
Canadians to re-start the quitting process through corporate programs that
feature live seminars and a series of workbook initiatives. The new medium for
these messages and exercises – www.smokingcontrolsystems.com -- makes these seminars and
initiatives available on-line for the individual smoker.
Said AMS
co-founder and CEO, Rick Weston: "The internet is the ultimate 'do-it-yourself'
medium, as the many sites devoted to information about quitting smoking can
attest. But this is the first site anywhere designed to help smokers to control
their habit first, and then stop for good."
"The site builds on our 18
years of experience in the field of smoking control, and it addresses the one
critical issue that tools such as the patch, or programs that involve hypnosis
or other behavior modification, don't."
"Most smokers keep smoking
because they failed to quit the first or second time."
"In other words,
they try to quit once or twice. Then they give up trying to quit because they
feel guilty or ashamed. Remember: of the 55 million North American smokers, 82%
have tried to quit and 67% have tried more than once."
"Our initial
research enabled us to be first to announce," says Weston, "that quitting is a
process, not an event. Because the more times you try to quit and fail, the
closer you are to quitting for good."
"We also believe that as
governments impose stricter smoking regulations on smoking, smokers will resort
increasingly to 'power-smoking', where they try to 'top-up' their nicotine
before they go back into the office or get on the plane. Unfortunately, power
smoking doesn't work, and staying quit remains difficult. However, stopping
power-smoking and reducing the frequency of smoking even by half is easy.
Smokers can immediately start saving hundreds if not thousands of dollars a
year, and reduce their health risks by half as well."
Smokers who log on
to www.smokingcontrolsystems.com have the option of signing up
for the on-line program or receiving the traditional workbook program. Both
programs cost $195 and the online version provides password access to purchasers
for as long as is needed. Media who would like to tour the site as well as the
full on-line Smoking Control System should contact Bob Ramsay at: e-mail
protected from spam bots for complimentary password access.
AMS
co-founder and CEO Rick Weston created Addiction Management Systems in 1986
after a career as publisher of The Engineering Times, President of Metson
Research, a packaging design company, and Hybrid Electronics Inc. Since 1988,
Mr. Weston and his team have provided smoking control programs for smokers at
more than 4,000 work sites, from oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, to Canadian
Coast Guard ships in the Arctic. He's also faced the challenge of training
smokers at companies in the tobacco growing regions of Canada and the U.S.,
where more than 60% of employees are smokers. He has appeared on many radio and
television programs, including Larry King Live, as an expert commentator on
smoking and smokers.
The site was designed by Brian Keenan of Las Vegas,
a certified professional internet consultant with WSI, a global organization
with over 700 offices in 89 countries supplying internet solutions to small and
medium business enterprises. The site is hosted by www.winninghabits.com of
Dallas, a leading provider of population health management solutions to
organizations in North America and around the world.
For information or
interviews with Rick Weston, please contact:
Bob
Ramsay
4l6-598-3970
e-mail protected from spam bots
Link to video
clips: http://www.ramsaywrites.com/SCS/SCS_Launch.htm
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/6/prweb135040.htm