Joel Spitzer has been a leading authority in the development and
implementation of smoking cessation and prevention programs for over 25 years. Far
from just following and teaching the commonly held beliefs of the day, he has been a
visionary who recognized early on that nicotine was an addiction while the rest of the
medical and scientific community contended it was simply a habit. His unique insight
allowed him to develop and implement nicotine prevention and intervention strategies that
were decades ahead of their time. Participants in his clinics have success in quitting at
rates that far exceed the national average for such programs.
