Close transcript window  Transcript: "Quitting Smoking"
Announcer: Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of lung
cancer. Since the 1960s, scientists have reported on the link
between cancer and smoking. If you smoke, you are at much higher
risk for lung cancer than a person who has never smoked. If you
quit smoking, you greatly reduce your risk, even if you have
smoked for a long time.  Dr. Scott Leischow: Quitting smoking is
hard for most smokers and it's hard whether they've been smoking
five years, it's hard if they've been smoking for 40 years.
Nicotine addiction is a very serious addiction and in many cases
requires a person get help from a health care provider. So I
don't want to make it sound like an easy process. But having
said that, a person can quit at any age -- they should quit at
any age and there are plenty of places senior citizens can go
for help to quit smoking.  Announcer: To help older people quit
smoking, the National Cancer Institute maintains a website with
a section that is geared