European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse To your health giving up cigarettes what a drag by Janet d Agostino medical writer a 1. Like nervous students on the Lisl Day of school Iho smokers died Inlo inc Stop smoking it Etc at Wiesbaden air Force regional medical Center anyone got a cigarette quipped one Man As lie took a Seal in Iho Hospital conference loom our thinks we re going to get All Cranky or something. Another said gum sales Are going logo upal the pred someone else they knew giving up those smokes would be Lough i would Mear. Drinking cot co Wilhour a Figarelle finishing a Good meal without a cigarette and trying to relieve tension at work without a Quick cigarette break a Neil Horowitz a psychologist and former smoker also realized How hard it would be Lor them to exorcise cigarettes from their lives he knew in they could nol have a cigarette in hand they would need something else Lor in � lingers to Caress so along with his words of encouragement to passed out wooden it Nging depressors you can Chow on hem you can write on them. You even Watlo dirty words on to said ill keep living them with a look of scepticism they accepted the Tongue depressors As paltry substitutes Lor tobacco. Horowitz chief of clinical psychology sen ices at the Hospital turned to the blackboard in Iron of inc group and wrote i choose to nol smoke anymore i m nol going to spend my Lime telling you Why you should Slop smoking to said. We re not going to use any scare tactics or show you films of people dying of cancer this is a program to help you in four Days significantly reduce or to Cut Oul Figarelle smoking. Tell yourself what your commitment is " in the next hour Horowitz talked about inc reasons people Slart smoking Why they continue and How they can Slop he Aston each participant to recount his own Figarelle smoking hts Lory Horowitz told the group to think about what kept them smoking and when they smoked most often. Their Homework he said was to give up cigarettes Lor 24 hours to write on an Index card i hair commitment to Slop smoking and to coma up with a plan to resist the temptation of having a cigarette. Several members of the group agreed to let the Slars and so rips follow them through Iho clinic whether they succeeded or nol Don Klascius 37, the assistant manager of Iho Wiesbaden sports censer. Had smoked Lor 25 years in my family it was always socially acceptable to Star smoking at 13 or 14 is you could buy them you could smoke them he said he wanted to quit because As anti smoking altitudes have grown stronger in has become a hassle to find a Lime and place to Light up air Force capt. Slevon Jarrett. 30, with the 7100th combat support Wing resource plans division smoked about 30 cigarettes a Day. A was trying to quit his 10 year habit because he a Jinn l want his Wile. 3 year old daughter and co workers to con linux to breath his smoke my daughter already walks around with a Pun in her hand saying look daddy i m smoking " he said. Army master sgt. Glenn pools. 40, of he co 4th brigade 6lh inf div puffed his first cigarette at 16. He quit twice before and was trying once again he said because my first child is duo in january and i want to be a part of his or her chief warrant Olicer Timothy Mueller 32. With the army s 16sth military intelligence in had smoked for 12 years he wanted to give in up because of his children and to improve his own health. "1 do not want my kids to live with an unhealthy dad he said. Air Force sol. Debbie Maloukis �9, an environmental health technician at is Wiesbaden Hospital started her pack a Day habit 12 years ago. She also wanted to quit for the Sake of her children i Don t want my kids to smoke but i la be a hypocrite it i Don t atop she said. Day 2. Only two suffered through 24 hours without a cigarette Mueller and Klaesius. I be gone 24 hours Mueller said ii was t that for Klaesius in was nol so easy i have nol had a cigarette in 24 he said White chewing on a Longwo depressor i got frustrated. I three things i Well Oul and Rode my Bike so fast i broke the cables and i be been worthless at work Poole managed 17 hours Wilhour a Figarelle but broke Down when he became aggravated at work. Although Horowitz had promised not to use any scare tactics he did talk Aboul the benefits of nol smoking for example a 25-year-old non smoker can exp eco to live seven years longer than a one pack a a smoker. But what the group really wanted to hear at was Micoretti the gum thai packs As big a nicotine punch As a cigarette. I Don t want Nicorelli to replace cigarettes a str sgt. Glenn Poole say he misses smoking a cog Rette alter f Good Page 14 the stars and stripes Don Klaesius be teen through three Day of titty sgt Debbie Makus to quitting Bec sust i Dor. Ana i m not going want my children to tuesday. Be
