In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Your mom may not be ready to hear about the dangers of smoking. Give her the raw facts about smoking, so that understand exactly why she should quit. According to the American Lung Association, smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., causing over 400,000 deaths per year. Secondhand smoke causes over 40,000 deaths per year, in additional to several respiratory illnesses. Nearly 70 chemicals found in cigarettes are known to cause cancer, including lead, acetone, ammonia, arsenic and formaldehyde. When a person quits smoking, breathing becomes easier within the initial 72 hours. Lung function improves within the first 3-9 months. The risk of a heart attack, stroke or lung cancer are cut in half within the first few years of smoking cessation. Read it over by yourself first, then choose a good time to go over it with her. Pamphlets regarding the hazards of smoking usually include key information regarding how smoking affects the body as well as how it affects others (including children and pets). The CDC has compiled a large list of informative pamphlets on the key aspects of tobacco use at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/multimedia/printable/. Breaking a habit is a very personal issue where one often feels isolated and is not ready to handle it on their own. Smokers anonymous groups are a great way for those with smoking addictions to receive much-needed support, resources, guidance and encouragement from both professionals and fellow smokers. Smokers anonymous groups (also known as nicotine anonymous) normally do not require that a person has already quit. The person has to simply want to quit in order to attend. Your mom will have the option of speaking with a personal sponsor who can motivate her when she is tempted to start smoking again. To find meetings near you, visit https://nicotine-anonymous.org/find-a-meeting.html If you believe that your mom may feel uncomfortable in such a group, online meetings are also available and can be found at https://nicotine-anonymous.org/internet-meetings.html
Summary: Perform some quality research regarding the health hazards of smoking. Pick up a pamphlet from the local community health center or doctor's office. Encourage her to join a Smokers Anonymous group.

Salt can have a negative effect on any weight loss routine, which can sabotage your ability to lose troublesome belly fat. Especially short term, this is a quick way to limit bloat and get a flatter stomach. Bloating in the stomach often results from carrying excess water. Water retention in the body is related to a heavy intake of sodium. Decrease your sodium intake. Read food labels to see how much sodium is in the products you consume. Be careful, however, as labels can be deceitful. Sometimes, a bag of chips doesn't look too unhealthy until you realize the nutritional information is "per serving" and the bag comes with 2.5 servings. Be realistic about how much of a product you expect to eat and calculate how much sodium you'll consume. Avoid processed foods and do not add too much salt to table foods. Watch out for canned vegetables and soy sauces, which can be salt-heavy. Protein is the single most important nutrient of weight loss. Eating the right breakfast has been shown to reduce cravings. Research shows that your body uses more calories to metabolize proteins than fat and carbs. Also, studies show that increasing protein intake by 25% has reduced late night snacking by half and obsessive thoughts about food by 60%. Whole wheat is just the beginning. For a flat, trimmed stomach, the bulk of your calories should come from healthy foods. Ditch sugary and processed foods. Potato chips, TV dinners, and fast foods should be purged from your diet. Beans and other legumes are high-quality carbohydrates packed with protein. Beans tend to help you feel fuller faster and help you burn fat after a workout. Try swapping out meats like chicken and beef for black, pinto, or kidney beans for a few meals each week. Berries, such as blueberries and strawberries, are low-calorie and a good source of essential vitamins that can keep your body healthy. Keep a bowl of berries in your fridge if you need a snack and go for that over pretzels or sweets. Nuts are filled with heart-healthy fat and are filling enough to reduce hunger cravings. Be careful, however. While healthy, nuts are high-calorie and it's easy to accidentally go overboard and end up gaining weight by overeating.
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One-sentence summary -- Limit the use of salt. Eat a high-protein breakfast. Stock up on healthy foods.

Problem: Article: You can collect information from them in several ways: telephone or e-mail surveys, statistical reviews of customer order history, and market trends. Ask them about their purchasing plans and projected buying behavior. Use a large pool to help generalize results. Ask them how likely they are to buy your products and tally the results. Customers are in the best position to know the demand for a product. The danger from surveys is that they often overestimate actual demand. While a customer may show interest in your product, actually buying it is a different thing altogether. Keep in mind that conducting surveys can be expensive, difficult, and time consuming. Surveys rarely form the base of a successful demand forecast. Use this during the early stages of your product development. Find a small, isolated, area that has your targeted demographic. Roll out every stage of your marketing plan including advertising, promotion, and distribution plans. Measure product awareness, penetration, market share and total sales. Fine tune your market strategy based on the information you receive so that you will run into fewer problems when you launch your product nationally. Gather a small group of potential customers in a room and let them use your product and discuss it. The customers are usually paid a small amount for participating. Panels are similar to surveys in that they are more useful to analyze the product rather than forming the basis for a demand forecast. Find a large set of household customers to agree to participate in an ongoing study of their buying habits at grocery stores, for example. Have these customers agree to submit information such as the size of their households, their ages, their household income, and any other information you find relevant to your product. Whenever they buy groceries, their purchases are recorded and analyzed. This data can be collected when they use their store grocery card. This creates a rich database to create statistical models and see relationships in data. As with other types of experimental approaches, it can be difficult to apply these results to demand forecasts.
Summary:
Survey your customers. Use test marketing. Host consumer panels. Use scanner panel data.