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Join Our Great American Smokeout
20 November 2008

Are you thinking about quitting tobacco, but not sure you’re ready to take the plunge? Join our Great American Smokeout event on 20 November 2008, and give up smoking for 1 day! Use this day as your quit date or support others in their efforts to quit tobacco. Check out these resources to help you quit tobacco for good.

  1. Create your own quit plan
  2. Chat one-on-one with a trained cessation coach
  3. Share your story about quitting tobacco
  4. Locate support and find information about different kinds of quitting medicines
  5. Subscribe to the QuitBrief E-mail Update to get updates on new content and available resources.

E-cards & Banners

Great American Smokeout BannersYou can help get the word out about our Great American Smokeout event by linking to our banners from your Web site. Send e-cards to tell your family and friends that you’re quitting smoking or chewing tobacco and to ask for their support.

Tobacco Tales

Have you successfully quit? Are you currently trying to quit? Have you found effective strategies for fighting those tobacco triggers? Share your story with us and with others who are trying to Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud.

Customize Your Great American Smokeout Materials

Fact SheetsCreate a fact sheet for your own Great American Smokeout event. Our fact sheets were designed to assist you in your local efforts to promote quitting tobacco. They are designed to be customized with local contact information or with information about a local event.

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Register Your Great American Smokeout Event

Event CalendarEvery year, service members are encouraged to give themselves 24 hours without tobacco during the annual Great American Smokeout. The event challenges people to stop using tobacco for a day and raises awareness of the many effective ways to quit for good. Register here to promote your installation’s Great American Smokeout event!

Shout Outs From Senior Leaders

These senior leaders want you to know they are behind your tobacco cessation efforts 100 percent. They understand how hard it is to quit tobacco, and they wish to share their personal stories and experiences to show that it quitting can be done successfully.

Order Materials

Whether you are planning a special event or just looking to promote cessation on your installation, this is your one—stop resource for all of the audio, video, and print materials associated with the Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud campaign. Our flyers, window clings, posters, and more are available for everyone to access and download, and health promotion officers can even order free copies online.


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