Lifelong tobacco users have long believed that quitting smoking after 20, 30 or even 40 years of tobacco addiction was an exercise in futility * "The damage has been done", they would say but these assumptions are dead wrong * Helps older smokers plot a course to quit through real-life success stories, and convinces them that the body really can heal itself after years of tobacco abuse * "We wanted to create a book, and a program, that would educate the older smoker on the realities of quitting," said Richard K. Delano, who co-authored the book with Krista V. Schaafsma * "Those realities include the fact that by quitting smoking, older tobacco users can re-gain their health and vitality and in the process of quitting they very often re-energize their entire life" * Includes 10 Books and 50 Action Plans * 160 pg. Softcover * Adult * Recommended in the AARP Magazine