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If you drink a lot of coffee, you may also want to cut down on your coffee intake as you will retain more caffeine when there is no nicotine in your system. Feeling jittery will not help your plan to quit. It may also be best to avoid alcohol as many people find it hard to resist smoking when they drink.
Quitting is different for everyone, so find an approach that will work for you. This may be either the cold turkey approach (stopping suddenly and totally) or a more gradual reduction in the number of cigarettes you smoke each day. Set a date to quit — and stick to it. Make it sooner rather than later. If you are quitting by yourself, it is recommended that you stop smoking completely on your quit date.
Coping with cancer during the holidays can be a challenge not just for the person facing cancer, but loved ones and caregivers, too. CancerCare oncology social worker and blood cancers program coordinator, Richard Dickens, LCSW-R, discusses how to find the support you need, in this November 24, 2009 interview on the "Strategy Room", a live-broadcast Internet news show from Fox News.
Sixty to 80 percent of people with cancer continue to work or return to work at some point after their treatment, noted a May 20, 2007 article in The Boston Globe. "Twenty years ago, being treated for cancer was a full-time job," said CancerCare Executive Director Diane Blum, who was quoted in the article. "Now symptoms are managed better, treatment is outpatient. People are often able to live their lives with some semblance of normality.
Reading early smoke signals." It's a well-known fact that smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer. But it's not the only cause, notes CancerCare's Win Boerckel, in a January 11, 2007 Washington Times article that examines new techniques for detecting and treating lung cancer earlier. Boerckel, director of CancerCare’s national lung cancer program, points out that people who work in places that expose them to radon or other industrial gases can be at risk for the disease, too. That’s why more and more people who are in high-risk groups are demanding that new early-detection methods like spiral CT scans become part of routine preventative health care.
Work is a vital part of daily living for many cancer survivors, says Dr. Carolyn Messner, CancerCare Director of Education and Training, in the October 17, 2006 edition of the National Cancer Institute Bulletin. "It provides income, health insurance, purpose in life, and even social relationships.