Opportunity to quit smoking
Eric Wolbert has been a nonsmoker for 30 days.
He quit his pack-a-day habit because he's watched cigarettes hurt too many people, including his grandparents, who died of lung cancer, he said.
Plus, smoking's getting too expensive.
"You can't find a pack that costs less than $4 anymore, and those are nasty ones," said Wolbert, 36, of Waterloo, Ill. "Right there, that's $2,200 a year up in smoke."
Wolbert signed up for Freedom From Smoking at Washington University in St. Louis' Siteman Cancer Center. It's a seven-week, group-therapy session that takes place at other area hospitals, including St. Louis University Hospital and St. John's Mercy Medical Center.
This is Wolbert's third attempt at quitting. The first two times, his doctor prescribed Chantix, a drug that blocks nicotine receptors in the brain, and wished him luck.
Wolbert, who learned of about Freedom From Smoking from a co-worker, is confident he'll succeed this time.
more |
Products & treatments
