"Tobacco Cessation and Addiction Recovery" is presented by Anna Byberg, Dawn Farm Project Manager. This program describes the prevalence of tobacco addiction among alcoholics and drug addicts, the relationship between tobacco use and recovery, and basic information about how to quit using tobacco. This program is part of the Dawn Farm Education Series, a FREE, annual workshop series developed to provide accurate, helpful, hopeful, practical, current information about chemical dependency, recovery, family and related issues. The Education Series is organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community of programs providing a continuum of chemical dependency services. For information, please see http://www.dawnfarm.org/programs/education-series.

1. TOBACCO CESSATION & RECOVERY

33. (Taylor, 2002) Men Women Life expectancy Extra years compared to smokers Life expectancy Extra years compared to smokers Smoked until death 69.3 73.8 Never smoked 78.2 8.9 81.2 7.4 Quit at age 35 76.2 6.9 79.9 6.1 Quit at age 45 74.9 5.6 79.4 5.6 Quit at age 55 72.7 3.4 78.0 4.2 Quit at age 65 70.7 1.4 76.5 2.7