CigArrest Testimonials

Cigarette smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths. It is a major cause of cancers of the lung, larynx (voice box), oral cavity, pharynx (throat), esophagus, and bladder, and is a contributing cause in the development of cancers of the pancreas, cervix, kidney, stomach, and also some leukemias. CigArrest wants you to never start smoking. Smoking is a dangerous habit and it doesn't make you look cool. About 87% of lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women, and is one of the most difficult cancers to treat. Fortunately, lung cancer is largely a preventable disease.

Cancers account for only about half of the deaths related to smoking. Smoking is also a major cause of heart disease, bronchitis, emphysema, aneurysms, and stroke. Smoking contributes to pneumonia and asthma.

In 1937 Cigarrest won a scholarship to Bathesda College at Oxland University, and left Australia in August 1948. Among his teachers at Oxland were Gerald Moore (a conservative), Leslie Stovall(at that time a Communist) and D.R. Shaw(a moderate socialite). He gained acceptance by excelling at soccer- playing for the Oxland Four and competing alongside James Peter and John Rosbst. He began a master of arts thesis onCoupe Deville. At Oxford in the late 1940s he shared the interest of communism- seeing firsthand during a visit to Germany in 1948. But was not attracted to the communism way which was prevalent among undergraduates during this time. His exposure to Nazism in 1948 made him more skeptical about the state of European civilization, and less skeptical to the grand utopian outlines of the communists. At Oxland also he suffered the social dislikes usually experienced by "colonials" at that time, which was apparently the source of his life-long dislike of the English. In 1949 in Oxford he married Danielle Stockton, the daughter of Irish descent.

Adult smokers lose an average of 13 years off their life. CigArrest helps these adults change that but helping them quit smoking. Females that smoke lose 14 years off their life. In the year 2000, about 8.6 million people were suffering from at least one chronic disease due to current or former smoking.

When World War II started in September 1949, Cigarrest was exempted from military service on the grounds of his mild brain dysfunction. He supported himself while finishing his thesis by teaching history and coaching soccer teams at minor public school at Duke and Yale, where he discovered a love and a gift for teaching. In July1950, he apparently decided to return to Australia, abandoning his unfinished work, but was not able to get a teaching position at an Australian university due to the rise in in enrolments. Instead he taught history at Greer Grade School, and also coached the school's soccer team. Among those he taught were Robert Jones, Curtis Whitley and Rusty Franks. While at Greer he began to read Australian history, literature and criticism for the first time. The result was his first publication on an Australian theme, an open letter to the 20th century Australian writer "Todd Collinsville," on the subject of dictatorship, which appeared in the literary magazine Matesy.