Weekly Warning sends a constant stream of poignantly
written warning messages directly to the tobacco user in your
life for an entire year. We send the messages anonymously or
we will include your name - your choice. The messages are sent
on brightly colored and boldly printed postcards or sent by
email; again - your choice. (see program
options)
Week
after week, different and medically current, each message
is a factual and frightening reminder of the health risks
and often catastrophic results of smoking or smokeless tobacco
use. The messages consist of detailed descriptions of tobacco-related
health problems and alarming statistics on what will very
possibly be the outcome of their habit. (see
message samples)
The
messages touch on how a tobacco habit affects a pocketbook,
a love life, a career and much more. We also include messages
of encouragement that describe how someone's body and life
will be affected by quitting. The basic message never changes:
QUIT
No
one can break an addiction to nicotine unless they are motivated
to do so. Here is where Weekly Warning can help. We help by
providing some of the motivation. For those who have already
made the commitment to quit, we add support.
Weekly
Warning has been a very effective program so far according
to the feedback we have received from both the senders and
the recipients of the messages - some of which are one and
the same. Many customers have told us that the effectiveness
of the program comes as much from the regularity and persistence
of the messages as from the messages themselves.
Overwhelmingly,
we are told that the real power of Weekly Warning comes from
the fact that the messages are being sent to the tobacco user
from someone who cares about that tobacco user - you. Weekly
Warning simply acts as the messenger. While we are the ones
actually sending the messages, they are really coming from
you and are tailored to the needs of the person to whom you
are having them sent based on the program options you choose.
Even if you choose to have them sent anonymously, the recipient
knows that someone out there cares enough about them to try
and help them.
We
have had husbands having messages sent to wives, sisters to
brothers, grandparents to grandchildren, and just about every
combination you can imagine. We even had a parent who had
messages sent to her son but had the messages labeled "From:
Grampa" who had died several years earlier from a smoking-related
illness. Weekly Warning has been a very positive and unique
gift for many people.
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