Kick the habit
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- October
- 12
Westchester County has started a “Quit Smokingâ€? “blog”:http://www.westchestergov.com/health/Tobaccoblog.htm  a place to share your stategies, successes and setbacks as you struggle to overcome a deadly addiction.
What a good idea. When you’re trying to give up cigarettes, any help is welcome.
The first  and so far only  entry comes from the county’s health commissioner, Joshua Lipsman. And that’s a problem.
No offense to Dr. Lipsman, but he had no trouble quitting. None at all. His smoking just tapered off, he writes. He only vaguely remembers his last cigarette.
“I guess I was one of the lucky ones,â€? he writes. “I just sort of…stopped smoking.â€?
One of the lucky ones? Just sort of stopped?
Come on Westchester, you need to do better than that.
A friend’s father supposedly shut himself up in a bathroom and smoked a carton of cigarettes one after another. A colleague here was weepy for two or three weeks. At one point she leaned up against a “No Parking� sign on 14th Street in Manhattan, sobbing and hyperventilating.
So please, some drama.
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on Thursday, October 12th, 2006 at 2:54 pm by Noreen O'Donnell.
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