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No more buts: new methods and meds can help dancers to finally quit for good.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: No more buts: new methods and meds can help dancers to finally quit for good.(your body)

Article Excerpt
This June, Andee Scott will celebrate her second year of quitting smoking. After a cervical cancer scare, the Austin-based dancer felt she needed to give up the pack-a-day habit she'd had since college. "I was frightened," she says. "Up until then, I suffered from the fallacy that I'm a dancer, know my body well, and nothing bad will ever happen to me."

By now, the stats are familiar. Research has shown that smoking claims some 440,000 lives each year. But there are additional concerns for dancers. High levels of carbon monoxide in a smoker's blood impair the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to cells. "No one can dance 100 percent full out as a smoker," says Richard Jackson, M.D., an internist with the Center for Performing...

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