The Good News

The benefits of becoming a non-smoker to your health and lifestyle, as well as that of your family, are well worth the effort. Check out the list of benefits below.

The financial rewards are staggering. When a one-pack-a-day smoker quits they will save almost six and a half thousand dollars ($6,500) every year. That's enough for a great annual holiday with the family or a new car every three years or so. If that smoker lives for another 30 years after quitting they will save the amazing amount of one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars ($165,000). And that's at today's prices! They also have a better chance to live out those 30 years free from the diseases that smoking can cause.

When you Quit

• The poisonous carbon monoxide that has built up in your blood leaves within a few hours. You are less breathless and can do more with less effort.
  
  
• In about two days your sense of smell and taste begin to return to normal. Your breath, hair, fingers, teeth and clothes will look and smell cleaner. Kissing a smoker has been likened to licking an ash tray!
  
  
• After about a week all the nicotine and its by-products have gone.



• About three weeks later the badly damaged tiny hair-like cilia that line your lungs will recover. They will sweep out the tar and mucous that smoking has deposited in your lungs and you will be able to cough them up.



• After one to two months exercising is easier because more air is getting to your lings. The transport of oxygen to your muscles has improved and the blood flow to your hands and feet also improves.



• After a year of being a non-smoker your risk of heart disiase is almost half that of someone who is still smoking.



• After 10 years your risk of developing liung cancer is halved and continues to decline while you continue not to smoke.

        Source: US Dept of Health & Human Services

Quit for Good

Giving up smoking is not enough - you need to become a non-smoker, because only non-smokers don't smoke. Don't be fooled into thinking that because you've simply given up cigarettes you can't become a smoker again. Research shows that more than 80% of smokers who quit and slip up, thinking that one or two won't hurt, return to full time smoking.*

Is it hard to become a non-smoker? It is much easier than stopping smoking, because while you are a smoker you need to smoke. Changing the habit means changing your attitude which brings about a change in behaviour.

Merganza's BANS Program is the only program that makes you a non-smoker for the rest of your life. You don't need will power you just need a burning desire to be free of the weed! You don't tryto strop smoking - that's psychologically impossible for a smoker. You simpy need the right conditioning to turn you back into a non-smoker - let's face it - you were born that way! BANS providees that for you.

If you are serious about quitting, you will find all of the answers here.

Check it out now.

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*Dr R. Borland, Victorian Centre for Tobacco Control