Healthy Monday at About.com Smoking Cessation

Started by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, the Healthy Monday campaign puts focus on bringing organizations together with the common goal of helping us achieve and sustain a healthy lifestyle. Healthy Monday encourages us to think of every Monday as a day that we can begin work anew on goals that we have for ourselves.

Healthy Monday and Smoking Cessation

By choosing Monday as your preferred quit date, you are building 52 opportunities into your year to commit to quitting smoking and celebrating your progress as you move ahead with your quit program. No longer will you be stuck in the limbo of indecision when thinking about smoking cessation. Your fresh start comes around once every seven days.

Quit Smoking Monday Messages

Our Reasons to Quit Smoking

When Loved Ones Aren't Supportive

Cravings to Smoke are Not Commands

Building a Foundation For Smoking Cessation

Quit Aids: Exploring Your Choices

Listening to the Voice of Experience

Removing the Blinders

There is No Such Thing as Just One Cigarette

If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again

After The Last Cigarette

Padding Big Tobacco's Pockets

Smoking Cessation: Myths vs. Facts

November is National Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Prepare to Quit Smoking

100,000 Cigarettes Not Smoked!

Unraveling the Threads of Addiction

Smoking Cessation is a Process, Not an Event

Managing Holiday Parties Smoke-Free

Cigarette Litter: A Plague on Our Planet

Minimize Holiday Weight Gain

Develop The Will to Quit Smoking Permanently

Coping With Stress When You Quit Smoking

I'm Smoking What?!

Confessions of a Closet Smoker

Don't Settle For Less in Your Life

Deciphering the Urge to Smoke

Personal Stories of Success

The Value of Support When You Quit Smoking

The Lives Lost to Lung Cancer

Fear of Flying

5 Tips That Will Help You Quit Smoking

A Good Time to Quit

Anatomy of a Smoking Relapse

If You Can't Breathe, Nothing Else Matters

Radioactive Cigarette Smoke

A Message to Those Who "Can't" Quit Smoking

Will I Miss Smoking Forever?

Goodbye and Good Riddance!

Desperate to Smoke -- Desperate to Quit

10 Ways to Adopt a Winning Attitude

SmokerDave's Story

Reasons vs. Excuses

Patience with the Process

Craving Cigarettes at 3 Months Quit

Personal Quit Stories

A Poignant Victory

A Mountain of Cigarettes...Not Smoked

Free Email Courses to Help You Quit

Your Voices

22 Things I've Learned About Quitting

Boosting Metabolism When We Quit Smoking

When I Think of a Cigarette

Owning Our Quits

Taking a Hard Look at the Destructive Effects of Smoking

Ambivalence About Quitting

Breathing

A Few Things I Know For Sure

Reader Stories

Prepare to Quit Smoking

Gratitude Heals

Your First Smoke-Free Holiday Season

Confident, Empowered and Thinner!

12 Tips to Help You Quit Smoking for New Year's

Why Am I So Afraid to Quit Smoking?

An Attitude Adjustment at Two Months Smoke-Free

Our Reasons for Quitting -- Susan's Story

10 Things to Avoid When You Quit Smoking

Love Your Heart - Quit Smoking

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

A Life Cut Short by Tobacco

6 Months Smoke-Free

Quit Smoking Milestones

Fear of QuittingWorld No Tobacco Day 2010

Six Tips for Success - Sadi's Story

Reflections from a Recovering Alcoholic and Nicotine Addict