The National Institutes of Health has a new website aiming to help older adults stop smoking. Quitting Smoking for Older Adults, a new topic from http://NIHSeniorHealth.gov, offers videos, worksheets, interactive features, strategies, quizzes, and more for older smokers who want to or are thinking of quitting. Although the rates of smoking have declined in recent years for all age groups, nearly 10 percent of adults over 65-almost 4 million older Americans-continue to smoke, NIH data show.
The site can be accessed at http://nihseniorhealth.gov/quittingsmoking/quittingwhenyoureolder/01.html