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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1981
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By SANDRA K. GARY
Battalion Reporter
Hie American Cancer Society
iis chosen Texas A&M Head
'oach Tom Wilson to serve as the
lonorary local chairman for the
ircal American Smokeout
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The Smokeout is a campaign
ngingall smokers to stop smoking
irone day.
Wilson, a smoker for almost 15
ears, agreed to try to stop smok-
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Don Moore, chairman of the
Smokeout in the Bryan-College
Station area, said Wilson was
chosen to chair the Smokeout be
cause smoking is usually associ
ated with pressure and Wilson is
in the public eye as a man under
much pressure.
“Smokers can identify with Tom
Wilson,” Moore said.
And, if Wilson can give up
smoking for a day, there’s no
reason any other smoker shouldn’t
be able to do the same, Moore, a
non-smoker, said.
This is the fifth year that the
Smokeout has been sponsored by
the American Cancer Society as a
nationwide campaign.
Sammy Davis Jr. was the first
national Smokeout chairman. He
tried to quit smoking but couldn’t
make it through the day. Ed
Asner, the 1978 national chair
man, quit smoking for the Smoke
out that year and hasn’t smoked
since.
Facts distributed by the Amer
ican Cancer Society say that over
52 million Americans smoke. Sur
veys by the society indicate that
nine out of 10 of those smokers
would like to quit.
Stop-smoking technique
wins woman date with J.R.
Paula Guest, of College Sta-
I wrote a letter she hoped
aid win her a trip for two to
Bollywood and a dinner date with
Actor Larry flagman of “Dallas.
Guest’s letter, written in re-
iponse to the American Cancer
Society’s Quit-Smoking Letter
Writing contest, won at the local
md state level. Unfortunately
tough, she lost at the national
evcl.
The contest is being held in
(injunction with the Great Amer-
can Smokeout. flagman, who is
lie GAS chairman and an ex-
mokeiyis helping with the con
test, The winner in the contest is
determined by presenting the
lest idea on how to quit smoking.
What I said in the letter about
smoking,” Guest said,
‘was kind of like what 1 feel about
king life in general. You’ve got to
link positive and believe in vour-
self.”
Guest had expected the winner
to be announced Thursday;
lowevcr, a United Press Interna-
story reports that the win-
ticr is Janet MacAinsh of Howell,
MacAinsh, a mother of six, was
hooked on cigarettes for 26 years
before she snapped her way to
kicking the habit and won the con
test.
MacAinsh, 46, said Monday she
successfully warded off the temp
tation to light up time and time
again by snapping her wrist with a
rubber band.
It became so worn out by the
time she discovered she no longer
needed to smoke there was not
another knot that could have been
tied to hold it together on her
wrist.
The University of Michigan em
ployee said she had a premonition
of her victory when she dreamed
of bumping into actor Hagman the
night before being told she was
the winner. On Friday she
learned she was a winner.
MacAinsh said she has always
believed people need something
to strike their senses in order to
get their attention. And since she
was wearing a rubber band around
her wrist when she decided to quit
smoking in June, she decided to
snap it each time she felt the urge
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United Press International
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A
scientist says most people don’t
realize it, but birds have different
dialects just like humans. And the
e bird who wanders into fore-
territory isn’t going to make
much of an impression on the
ies.
Dr. Myron Charles Baker, an
associate professor of zoology and
entomology at Colorado State
University, said Monday' his stu
dies show birds from different
geographic areas “speak in diffe
rent dialects. Some birds take
those differences so seriously that
they won’t mate with a bird who
sings the wrong song.
“It’s like distinguishing be
tween a Southern drawl and a
Midwestern accident,” he said.
Tfs like a human saying, ‘Man,
that song really turns me on.
Baker said it isn’t just the
females who get turned off by a
foreign accent. He said earlier stu
dies frequently showed “males get
much madder when they hear a
neighboring dialect.”
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MacAinsh continued wearing
and snapping the rubber band,
tying it back together when it
broke.
“My husband kept telling me to
get a new rubber band, but I
couldn’t do it,’ she said.
“This was the rubber band I in
tended to quit with, and finally
when it couldn’t be knotted any
more I discovered I was over the
habit.
The executive secretary of the
dean of U M’s arts school included
a sample “non-smoker rubber
band with her entry for the letter
writing contest.
In the letter, she listed five
principles for kicking the tobacco
habit — don’t tell anyone you are
quitting, use snaps with a rubber
band to “rattle your brain, don’t
look ahead, deposit savings in ajar
and get support from nonsmokers.
T didn t need expensive gim
micks, hypnosis or drugs — I used
intelligence will power and
gamesmanship,” she said.
“It works.’’
By SANDRA K. GARY
Battalion Reporter
The American Cancer Society
offers the following tips for partici
pants in Thursday’s Great Amer
ican Smokeout:
1. Don’t carry a lighter or
matches and hide all ashtrays.
2. When the urge to smoke
hits, take a deep breath. Hold it
for 10 seconds, then release it
slowly. Taking deep, rhythmic
breaths is similar to smoking but
allows one to inhale clean air in
stead of poisonous gases.
3. Spend your day in places
where smoking is prohibited — a
library, theater or museum.
4. Eat rather than smoke, but
stick to low-calorie, high-nutrition
foods — fresh fruit, raisins or crisp
vegetables. Other possible paci
fiers include lemon drops, sugar
less gum, cloves, beef jerky and
unbuttered popcorn.
5. Exercise helps relieve ten
sion. Climb stairs rather than take
the elevator, get off the bus a stop
before your destination and walk.
6. Drink plenty of liquids. Wa
ter, herbal teas, fruit juices and
some soft drinks all fit the bill.
Pass up coffee, tea, caffeinated soft
drinks and alcohol as these drinks
can increase the urge to smoke.
7. Keep your hands occupied.
Try doodling or working with a
calculator (figure out the money
you’ll save by quitting cigarettes).
8. Break the habits that involve
smoking. If you always had a
cigarette on your office break, opt
for a low-calorie snack and juice or
tea instead.
9. Wrap your cigarettes in a
sheet of paper, then put a rubber
band around the package. If you
must reach for a cigarette, you’ll
have more difficulty getting to one
and will be made aware of your
action.
10. Tell your family and friends
that you are going to stop smok
ing. Ask them to help keep you
from backsliding and ask them not in the absence of smoking will
to smoke when you are with them, help you realize that you don t
11. Indulge yourself. Enjoying need a cigarette to have a good
a leisurely bath, a massage or a nap time.
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