40 to 45% of American adults make one or more resolutions each year. Among top new years resolutions are weight loss, exercise, and stopping to smoke.

The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on:

• Maintained past first week –75%
• Past 2 weeks -71%
• After one month -64%
• After 6 months - 46%

While a lot of people who make new years resolutions do break them, research shows that making resolutions is useful. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don't explicitly make resolutions.

For smokers, one slip and old internal negative language starts up again. Don’t think about that one slip, think about how many times you chose not to smoke!

Smoking Cessation
Tobacco is an addiction, not just to tobacco but to feel of cigarette in your mouth, holding cigarette in your fingers, visual appeal of flame and smoke, and even to camaraderie of smoking buddies.

All these and many other behaviors serve to meet a psychological or emotional need. This helps to explain why it can be so difficult to break a smoking addiction.

Ray Charles admitted to having been addicted to alcohol, heroin, and cigarettes but broke each of these unhealthy habits. Which habit did he consider hardest to give up? Smoking.

Don’t stop trying to quit! A complete program addressing both physical and mental addiction to tobacco provides you with tools and support to continue with your resolution.

A low-level laser treatment, which removes physical cravings, along with support of a licensed addiction counselor is now available in Ohio.

The program even addresses weight gain. You can quit smoking without gaining weight and without physical withdrawal symptoms! See http://www.seniorsapprove.com/stopsmokingnow Or contact Advanced Laser Solutions in Garfield Hts Ohio at 216-663-7360.

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Most dictionaries define pandemic as "an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout world."

Recently, Klaus Stohr, coordinator of global infuenza program at World Health Organization predicted a bird flu pandemic that would take more lives than Spanish Flu of 1918 wherein 20-to-40 million perished.

He wasn't only expert who pressed panic button.

United States Health and Human Secretary, Tommy Thompson, said "This is a bomb that could impact world."

Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, issued a warning to physicians to be on lookout for symptoms of avian influenza virus known as H5N1.

Even CIDRAP, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at University of Minnesota is alarmed. They have this statement posted on their webiste: "If next pandemic strain is highly virulent (such as 1918 strain) global death toll could be dramatic."

The current fatality rate in Southeast Asia is 73%.