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All About Stopping Smoking

February 26, 2010 by

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This week Dr. Gracer begins his show by interviewing Carol Southard, RN, MSN, a well-known expert on smoking cessation. In this interview Carol relates some of the most important points about smoking cessation, including several tips on how to stop.  One excellent resource she mentions is My Time to Quit.

Then Dr. Gracer presents an interview with Marcia Jacober, MFT,  staff therapist at Gracer Medical Group on various aspects of smoking, including the extent of the problem, the physiology behind smoking and addiction, what happens physiologically when you smoke and when you stop smoking, and more.   (This is a partial repeat of the first of two earlier shows, Smoking: How It Gets to Us and Smoking: How to Quit, which you can find in the WomensRadio archives.)

If you are a smoker or know someone who wants to quit, this show will give you a great place to start.

More about Carol Southard
Carol Southard, RN, MSN, an American Lung Association certified instructor with over 25 years experience and proven success, is a pioneer in the field of smoking cessation.

Carol is on staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is a Tobacco Cessation Consultant for Chicago area hospitals. She has published articles, chapters for text books, and presented numerous workshops and seminars for health professionals as well as for community groups on smoking cessation throughout the nation and recently presented grand rounds at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam!

Carol served on the expert panels of both the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians and the Illinois Academy of Pediatrics each of which produced CME presentations entitled Adult Smoking Cessation: Intervention Strategies for Primary Care Providers and Adolescent Tobacco Use – Prevention and Cessation: Strategies for Primary Care Providers respectively.

Carol was also  the Project Consultant for the Smoking Cessation Initiative, a national program under the auspices of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association.  Recently, she joined the staff of the University of Chicago Medical Center as a Study Therapist for the Clinical Addictions Research Laboratory. She was instrumental in launching the Chicago Second Wind: A Chicagoland Smoking Cessation Initiative.

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About Richard Gracer

Richard I. Gracer, MD, is the founder of Gracer Behavioral Health Services, an innovative and comprehensive substance abuse program that stresses the reduction of cravings, and has been in medical practice since 1974. He is certified in Addiction Medicine and Family Practice, and a Diplomat of the American Academy of Pain Management. He edited Beating the Years, Beating Sports Injuries, and Beating Back Pain (Barron’s, 2003,2005, 2006), and wrote the popular “Ask the Doctor” column in the Lamorinda Sun for 10 years. He is the author of A New Prescription for Addiction.

Dr. Gracer is also the Host of A New Prescription for Health on WomensRadio. A New Prescription for Healthfeatures discussions with noted experts, both researchers and practitioners, on cutting edge, holistic, and comprehensive treatments for pain and addiction. Aimed at the educated person seeking more information, this series provides hard-to-get information and insights, including interviews with actual patients, on treatment of these difficult and pervasive problems.

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