Smokers Anonymous

2005 E. Van Buren

Charleston, IL 61920

217-345-6922

Please announce our not-for-profit support group in your paper. I’m committed to keep this group going for at least 1 year. We have a core group of 5 since 4/10/03. So please continue to run this news until further notice, or let me know if I have to personally renew it each month or what ever your frequency & policy is?

Smokers Anonymous (SA)

A Nicotine Anonymous group (NA)

We meet every Thursday, at 7 p.m. at

Wesley United Methodist Church Room 128

2206 4th Street Charleston, IL 61920 (217)345-3917

For more information contact Chris Bader at 217-345-6922 or goto our web site at:

www.ouremall.net/sa/sa.htm you gota see our resource page!

If you can do a whole story for us please include all this:

Smokers Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from smoking. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop smoking. There are no dues or fees for membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions.

SA invites any one with the desire to quit smoking, & anyone who has quit to give their support, come tell your story, and be an inspiration to us all. The Dipper and Chewier are welcome too.

Our meetings are open to smokers and x-smokers, but we have an enormous amount of literature & resources to help anyone with any bad habit they may have and want to get over.

Our support group is a higher power that can help you quit, and stay quit. Our healing is progressive, just as our habit was when it first began (it started with one). We use the group to replace the bad habit with a good habit. Our commitment to the group, finding a sponsor, becoming a sponsor, or group leader are goals to help us stay quit. The group makes quitting and stay quit easier for all of us. By sharing our stories, and through the collective wisdom of all of us we gain lots of strength, and new tools and ideas that all help us stay quit. It offers us all something to look forward too each week. Our commitment is stronger when united.

Please tell others you think would be interested in our group.

*Note to editor if you can give me a contact person, a phone #, and email address I will send you updates. Will you please let me know when this announcement comes out, and how frequent it comes out? Can you please send me a tear sheet?

Sincerely,

Chris Bader

SA Facilitator