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	<description>Awareness campaign-month for smokers to quit smoking in the workplace</description>
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		<title>They shock, but do these ads bother us?</title>
		<link>http://quitober.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/they-shock-but-do-these-ads-bother-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They shock, but do these ads bother us? From Adelaide Now: SHOCK tactics on TV are the mainstay of public warning advertising campaigns &#8211; but do they work? FROM a smoky haze, the Grim Reaper emerges &#8211; scythe in one hand, bowling ball in the other. He takes aim at his human targets at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quitober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11743287&amp;post=180&amp;subd=quitober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Being Much More Supportive of Smokers Quitting than Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Non-Smoking Week issues options, incentives to quit Good on you Canada for taking such a positive stand and being more supportive to smokers rather than, as mentioned being &#34;No longer purveyors of authoritative lectures or graphic guilt trips&#34;. Here in Australia the Quitline still persists in trying to only scare smokers into quitting with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quitober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11743287&amp;post=179&amp;subd=quitober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confusing Messages from Hume City News Papers and Quit Victoria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hume Leader “Hume resists smoke-free outdoors” 21 Jan Macedon Ranges Weekly &#34;Hume reacts to smoking toll&#34; 18 Jan Can you spot the difference? If you read these two stories one would think that they are telling two completely different stories. I think someone has gotten their wires crossed somewhere. Anyway, outdoor smoking bans or no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quitober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11743287&amp;post=174&amp;subd=quitober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yarra turns down proposal for smoking bans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yarra turns down proposal for smoking bans Melbourne Leader 25 Jan 2011 I have put a proposal to Quit Victoria that they encourage councils to not only impose bans (the stick) but use support campaigns like Quitober or QuitMay Challenges to encourage councils to support their own smokers to quit in their workplace (the carrot). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quitober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11743287&amp;post=168&amp;subd=quitober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Peter Sheahan author of Making $#it Happen Sept 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Peter, I just go t your book Making $#it Happen and it is going to be a big one for my repertoire, as I am at the “tipping point” as you put it, in the process of influencing my buyers. (And read about 30 of those business self help books but have been trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quitober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11743287&amp;post=163&amp;subd=quitober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About Quitober</title>
		<link>http://quitober.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/about-quitober/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After running 2 pilot campaigns over 2 years I have selected the appropriate model &#38; proven the concept. In Australia there are some 20% or 3 million smokers. Over 1 million of those will attempt to quit this year. Most will fail. We think smokers are ready for a more supportive approach to quitting. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quitober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11743287&amp;post=162&amp;subd=quitober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Open Letter to Anti-Tobacco Campaigner on the Benifits of Positive Quitting</title>
		<link>http://quitober.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/my-open-letter-to-anti-tobacco-campaigner-on-the-benifits-of-positive-quitting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can I get your feedback on my barrow that I am pushing at the moment. Like you say, some councils have been spooked into not implementing alfresco bans. My point is this that if councils were seen to be dong more positive things with tobacco control as well, that they may win over more support [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quitober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11743287&amp;post=161&amp;subd=quitober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Quitting Smoking, More of the Carrot and less of the Stick</title>
		<link>http://quitober.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/positive-quitting-smoking-more-of-the-carrot-and-less-of-the-stick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day there is another article published on the negative health effects of smoking, with more smoking bans imposed and just generally more talk that is isolating smokers from the community. For the last 20 years all Australians have been bombarded with TV advertisements of smokers struggling to breath or children crying in the streets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quitober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11743287&amp;post=160&amp;subd=quitober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Docklands QuitMay Challenge 2011 Poster</title>
		<link>http://quitober.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/docklands-quitmay-challenge-2011-poster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<title>Harvard Business Review &#8211; The 6 Pillars of an Effective Workplace Wellness Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethink Perfect - Desmond Sherlock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://hbr.org/2010/12/whats-the-hard-return-on-employee-wellness-programs/ar/1 Strategically integrated wellness programs have six strong pillars that simultaneously support their success, regardless of the size of the organization. Construct them well, and your institution could see the kinds of big returns that the 10 companies in our sample have garnered. 1. Multilevel Leadership Creating a culture of health takes passionate, persistent, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quitober.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11743287&amp;post=154&amp;subd=quitober&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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