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The True Cost of an
Employee-Smoker
The true cost of an employee-smoker encompasses far more than
just higher healthcare premiums. In fact, the added indirect
costs are more than double the expense of the
higher medical premiums your company pays for your higher risk
employee-smokers.
In addition to elevated healthcare premiums your company is also
burdened with costs of:
- Lost on-the-job productivity due extended work breaks
- Higher absenteeism due to more frequent illness
- Cost of training existing employees to fill-in for absent
smokers
- Hiring of replacement workers in the prolonged absence of an
employee-smoker.
- Premature death of employee smokers at middle-age, at the
height of their value to the employer
- Property loss and burn care resulting from smoking
- Extended prenatal care for low-birth-weight infants of female
employees who smoke
- Costs associated with containing environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
A PROVEN Program to Aid in Combating Rising Employee Healthcare
Costs
Heightened awareness of the costs attributed to employee-smoking
along with broadening legislation to curtail smoking in the
workplace has led to proliferation of smoking cessation programs. In
selecting a program that is right for your company, your first
consideration should be the PROVEN, documented effectiveness
of the program you are considering.
In its 35 years serving the needs of employers worldwide, SMOKENDERS
has consistently been chosen over other methodologies as the
program-of-choice of leading corporations,
healthcare and educational institutions. These organizations
realize that the effectiveness of the SMOKENDERS program is
unequalled, as PROVEN in countless independent studies including a
comprehensive study of 8000 SMOKENDERS
graduates conducted under the auspices of the prestigious Johns
Hopkins University.
SMOKENDERS
uses neither scare tactics, aversion therapy, herbal remedies, oral
pharmaceuticals, nicotine replacement gums or patches to
consistently return a success rate unequalled by ANY methodology.
Why?
SMOKENDERS
eliminates BOTH the nicotine AND the psychological dependency of
tobacco. Following the fourth week of the SMOKENDERS
program, your employees will be free of the bond of nicotine
dependency. By the conclusion of the 6 or 7 week seminar series,
your employee will also be free of the psychological dependency of
tobacco, a KEY element that neither pharmaceuticals or nicotine
replacement methodologies can provide.
Employees will "learn" how NOT to smoke. They will
learn to understand their stressors and combat them. They will learn
to re-pattern their daily activities to counter triggers that could
lead to smoking in the future. They will become more productive,
healthy employees fully in control of their lives having realized
they CAN achieve success and release themselves from the bonds of
tobacco.
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 Facts
to Consider When Contemplating a Workplace Smoking Cessation
Program...
- The International Society of Employee Benefits Specialists
ranks smoking cessation FIRST among workplace health
programs for return on investment far ahead of cholesterol
screening and weight control
- A May 2003 analysis of employee healthcare costs by the Employment
Policy Foundation projects that the employer's share of
employee healthcare costs is expected to more than TRIPLE by
2009. To place this is in perspective,
the average total cost of healthcare for a full-time single
employee averaged $3189 in 2002 with the employer typically
absorbing 67% of this cost. By 2009, the EPF
projects annual healthcare premiums for the same single
employee to rise to an astounding $10,000
per year.
- Statistically, out of an average group of 1000 30-year old
employees who smoke, 250 will die from smoking prior to middle
age. An additional 250 will die from smoking in retirement.
This total does not include those employees who will
suffer from long-term respiratory and cardiac illness living
out their lives in a state of medical dependency.
- In a recent poll of 1010 employees conducted by Harris
Interactive, 89% of employee-smokers believe smoking will
increase their risk of developing cancer; 86% believe that
smoking will increase their risk of heart attack; and, 84%
expect smoking to shorten their lives appreciably. More than
700 of the 1,010 employees polled have a strong desire to quit
smoking but feel they lack the willpower or means to do so on
their own.
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