Quitting smoking
Subtitle: nicotine addiction in Minnesota.
Contributors: Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco.; Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Minnesota.; Minnesota. Dept. of Health.
Publisher: Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco; BlueCross BlueShield BluePlus of Minnesota; Minnesota Dept. of Health
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Tobacco use -- Minnesota -- Statistics.; Smoking -- Minnesota -- Statistics.; Nicotine addiction -- Minnesota -- Statistics.; Smoking cessation -- Minnesota.; Smoking -- Minnesota -- Statistics.; Smoking Cessation -- Minnesota.
Genres: Statistics.
Description: Provides information on quitting smoking for four groups of Minnesotans: the general population of adults, adult members of the Blue Plus MinnesotaCare program, adult members under age 65 of the Blue Plus Prepaid Medical Assistance Program (PMAP), and 9th- to 12th-grade public school students.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 16).
Title from cover.
"July 2001."
Also issued via the Internet.
Table of contents: title: Smoking causes death and disease --; title: Many adult Minnesotans smoke --; title: Many adult smokers try to quit --; title: Quitting is difficult because smoking is addictive --; title: Many smokers quit successfully, for many reasons --; title: There are many barriers to quitting smoking --; title: People trying to quit smoking are increasingly seeking assistance --; title: Many teens in Minnesota smoke --; title: Most teens in Minnesota smoke --; title: Most teen smokers want to and have tried to quit --; title: Quitting is especially difficult for teens who are frequent smokers --; title: Family and friends who smoke make it harder for teens to quit --; title: Frequent teen smokers with failed quit attempts are the least confident about quitting --; title: Quitting assistance now widely available to Minnesotans.