One to One with Bill Goodman:
Quit Now Challenge
aired February 23 and 25, 2007
Peer pressure is often a factor in why young people begin smoking. But peer support can also be critical in helping people stop smoking. On this edition of One to One, host Bill Goodman talks with two Kentucky women who are involved with a nationwide stop-smoking initiative that uses the real-life stories of fellow “quitters” as incentive and inspiration.
The Quit Now Challenge, organized by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute, conducted a nationwide search for people between 18 and 29 years old who wanted to quit smoking and were willing to encourage others to do so by posting daily diary entries about their experiences on a web site, 1800quitnow.org. Cindy Murdock, a Kentuckian chosen as a national semifinalist in the challenge, joins Bill to talk about her participation in the contest, which involved writing an essay on why she wanted to “Be a Quitter.”
Bill also speaks with RaeAnne Davis, the Kentucky coordinator for the ongoing CDC/NCI National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines initiative, about efforts to help smokers kick the habit in Kentucky and around the country. Those efforts also include a telephone hotline, 1-800-QUIT-NOW, where callers can request practical, effective materials, advice, and referrals to help them quit smoking.
Related Resource:
- Learn about other Kentucky-based efforts to discourage smoking and help smokers quit in Program 5 of KET’s The CommonHealth of Kentucky.
