Today is the American Cancer Society's Great American smokeout. The idea is simple, smokers are encouraged to try and quit for the day. If they can quit for a day, why not go for a week, or a month, or forever?
Certainly the reality is much more complicated than that. Iyaad Hasan heads up the Tobacco Treatment Center at the Cleveland Clinic. And he says the average smoker today is different than a generation ago.
Iyaad Hassan is the director of the Tobacco Treatment Center at the Cleveland Clinic.