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from Studio and Sunday afternoon at 5 and a new state funded program hope to help smokers quit by getting them to pick up the telephone instead of a cigarette. Also tonight local adventurer will cross over the South Pole and here in our studio. And it is a favorite Pittsburgh pastime. We're headed to one of the biggest bingo games in the burgh next. Welcome to you Magazine. I'm Stacey Smith. If you or someone you know is trying

to quit smoking tonight's cover story may make it a little easier. The state of Pennsylvania has launched a brand new program designed to help thousands of people kick the habit for good. Quick line is a toll free telephone counseling service to give smokers the chance to pick up the phone instead of a cigarette. So what happens after that. And will anyone really use the service in their quest to quit. On cue correspondent Tanya Crusoe looks at smoking at quitting and meet Rebecca Wisner and in Sudan a car could probably work something out here. She's a production manager here at WQED multimedia and he's an interned for Pittsburgh magazine. They work in two different areas of the building but have often spent their breaks at the same place. On the loading dock smoking a cigarette

I started smoking this. Wow. I am fighting a 17 year addiction. How many packs do you smoke a day. Now I probably will under a pack a day. Nishan Rebecca are not alone. More than 46 million a daughter Americans are smokers more than 2 million of them are here in Pennsylvania and like most smokers both have tried to quit before come from three or four color age usually mid terms and squashed as well as the occasional partying and bar hopping. I'd say that I've probably attempted to quit three times seriously before this weather that's lasted a month or two months or even just a day or two. Each individual has a right to smoke but these days the state of Pennsylvania says it has a vested interest in helping them to quit. Marie Watts is a

prevention specialist with the American Cancer Society in the state of Pennsylvania. We actually have 23000 people who die prematurely from tobacco use. Health care cost in the state of Pennsylvania are up to four point five billion dollars just to take care of people with lung disease or to see people through their their therapy for lung cancer. Armed with nearly one point two million dollars of the state's share of the tobacco settlement lawsuit Pennsylvania has set up a program it hopes will help thousands of people kick the habit. It's a toll free telephone counseling service called the Quit Line. Thank you for calling American Cancer Society This is Shelly How may I help you. This is meant to help anyone who wants to quit smoking.

And even those people who are on the fence who are not quite sure about wanting to quit smoking the quit line answers 24 hours a day seven days a week. It's offered by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and managed by the American Cancer Society. It is staffed by psychologists nurses social workers and others in the health care field. The counselors are based out of a calling center in Texas. But Watts says the assistance they give is personal confidential and tailored to each caller. For a minute after you wake up. Yeah usually the client or the person who calls in actually is counseled about four critical steps the first step be in making the decision to quit and the second step B is setting a quit date. The third step is maintaining and the fourth step is just follow up calls from the Quit Line call center call or set up regular phone appointments with the same

counselor to discuss their progress and they can call it any other time for help in dealing with an immediate craving or another issue. Dr. Deborah Maass of children's hospital often works with parents trying to quit smoking. She sees them as a valuable tool and it's very helpful I mean the counselors really individualized their care. They also send pamphlets that are appropriate for the person who's interested in quitting. What people have found very convenient in their hectic lives is using telephone counseling. So I really encourage people to call the Quit Line the state quit line which is brand new. I think it's really important for people to know that it's out there but knowing it's out there and getting people to use it are two very different things. Peace has not yet decided to quit smoking again but believes when he dies he'll try other methods first.

I'm sure you know that I actually want to try to be a lot more like physically active workout play basketball more and stuff like that. Things that all that smoking kind of deters a lot of things quit a physical addiction and trusting someone I think is trusting someone who's shoulder your shoulder the burden with you. It's just as important as anything else you can might be able to tell it like RIP or I don't know if the hotline would do anything for anybody. But so far the Department of Health says more than 50 400 Pennsylvania calls and in tracking many of those callers they found success. They have done clinical trials and found that the percentage of people who have quit smoking was 20 to 30 percent using the quit lie.

Rebecca has decided to try to quit smoking on her own. She's using a nicotine patch and one other motivational factorization did a little math before I left home today. I wanted to put a dollar figure on it because both my fiance and I are smokers trying to quit and calculated that if we quit today as we both have and continue on for a year we will save two thousand nine hundred twenty dollars. That's almost $3000 income to buy a lot of things. So as for the Quit Line Personally I think that it's a great service that I would use it. I have to be honest and say probably not only because I know what my diction has to offer right now so to speak. I know where it's going to be difficult but I know people who deal with addiction a lot differently it's an individual thing. Anything that can come positive from the tobacco settlement is a good thing. If a helpline is now available then somebody out there is going to benefit from it so I think that it's a

wonderful use of resources. Organizers hope Rebecca Aneesh will eventually change their minds and use the Quit Line. They say it's a true line of defense. The battle to quit smoking in combination with using the nicotine patch or the gum or in combination with even just cold turkey when you have two or more of these things working for you you're apt to have a better outcome. We are making a start we are planting a seed. People do want to quit smoking and we are there to help them. Now before we get to anything else we want to give you the number for the toll free quit line right now. You can see it on your screen. The number is 1 8 7 7 7 2 4 10 9 D Again that's 1 8 7 7 7 2 4 10 90 and we will have more information about the Quit Line on our

Web site at WQED dot org. Just click on the on queue button on the first page. Now Pennsylvania is one of only nine states in the country to offer a quit line and actually began operating this past July. But the state's official kickoff for the Quit Line was in the Rambler during the Great American Smokeout. And now the state is really working hard to try to get the word out there to make sure that people are aware it is an option. And part of the work the American Cancer Society is doing right now includes talking with local health care providers making them aware of the quicklime Stacie so that doctors who are working with patients will let patients know that this is indeed an option says he's not ready to quit yet right. How is Rebecca doing. I just was in the control room asking Rebecca double checking. And the day that we interviewed Rebecca it was her first day to try to quit smoking again. And we're happy to say that 17 days later she is still smoke free. She's using the patch and doing well and she has really great determination. You talk to her about it almost every day and she's

hanging in there. And the Cancer Society will tell you that's what's really important is that people develop a will to want to quit smoking and that you know maybe the Quit Line is not for everybody but it certainly is something that can help for some people that support may be exactly what they need. Exactly. Tanya thank you. Coming up next a local adventurer will cross is back in Pittsburgh after becoming the first person with diabetes to travel to the South Pole on foot on cue has been covering Will's journey since November. And you're going to meet him live in our studio coming up next. And then coming up just a little bit later a favorite Pittsburgh pastime. We're going to take you to one of the biggest bingo games in the book. You're watching. Q magazine because these foundations care enough about local programming to help pay for the Richard King Foundation the McCune foundation the Pittsburgh foundation the Henry Foundation corporate funding for NQ is provided by the West Allegheny health system among

America's best according to U.S. News and World Report magazine West and Allegheny is the provider of choice on the web at WP dot org and we couldn't do it without you. Hello I'm Chris Moore last month a local traveler will cross became the first person with diabetes to reach the South Pole on foot. We've been tracking will since November and up until now our only contact with him has been via satellite telephone. But tonight will is back and in Pittsburgh live on cue. Welcome back man at some adventure. How did you decide to come up with this. Well it took about two years of planning and I thought it was important to do an expedition that was sort of a welding physically and mentally but would also contribute to diabetes research. Now this is not something new to you you've been a mountain climber for some time. You've climbed Mount McKinley climbed others.

Yeah I really enjoy high mountains I'd like to go the high Himalaya spent some time in the Alps and South America really through those climbs to develop the idea to go to the South Pole. And as a result of that ended up going to the North Pole as well. Did both of you say you had to watch the polar bears up north but not down Sally. Yeah. OK now. How did it work. You are diabetic and you're dependent on insulin. You had to keep this stuff from freezing did you. That was one of our biggest challenges was how to prevent the medicine from freezing and we worked with the Art Institute of Pittsburgh to develop essentially an on the low that was made of the insulating material used on the Mars lander. And that allowed me to be in temperatures of minus 50. No problems at all. And it did get that cold it did yeah. OK. So how did you feel the pull in the sled and how much did the sled weight sled weighed about 150 pounds. We pulled 10 hours a day. We have four would you go in a day 13 to 14 miles. OK. And that's us

who took the pictures. We had another guy on the trip who flew in with my father and docked a good pastor who joined us for the last two weeks and he took the shots. Now your father suffered a little frostbite on. Sam Wright he did my father is also a diabetic and I think just yesterday he had the tip of his thumb taken off as a result of the intense frostbite. Were you ever worried when the temperature got down to 50 below that that someone would freeze because if it did it's going to trips over here trips over. I didn't spend a significant amount of time preparing go to the North Pole going to Greenland. I had a good team. I had insulin distributed throughout the continent in case there was a serious emergency. So we had a good backup plan and a good team. My worry really wasn't the insulin. The biggest challenge was the day to day hammering physically and mentally that you take and you lost a lot of weight while you were there yet you were eating almost 2500 calories a day. How much were you eating was it more than that.

We ate that per meal so we had about meal 6000 calories a day. Wow. I gained 20 pounds for the trip. Lost 30 so did the polar bear thing put on the winter ferrite exam you lost 30 pounds the whole time you were there. Yes. OK. Now how much money did you raise for diabetes research. We were raised in both England and the states about eight hundred thousand dollars. How do people do that how did people contribute they can log on to cure walk dot com. They can call JTR eth. Or also work with the Danforth company here in Pittsburgh. OK and the links to cure walk dot com are on our website at WQED dot org Just click on Q and they will be link right to cure walked up to com I think that's the important thing to continue that. What's next for you what are you going to what's the next big adventure next big adventure. I think it's domestic We have been doing this but I would like to go on to the high Himalaya sometime next year. Now you did bring your whole family with you tonight a wife and your kids here. I guess they're trailing you around everywhere you go. You seem like just dance back home or you're He wrote.

Well it's good to see each other. We you know I've been away for three months and I think it's important that they're part of the adventure. I'd like adventure to be part of their life as well. Did you talk to them via satellite phone. If you did the interview so that they could check on you all the time gone Thanksgiving and Christmas and and we had you arriving back here at the airport full beard you've got that little bird around the face there too. Well this is a recovering from flash but it is what that is. So it's a little frostbite on the face. Yeah my cheeks and on my nose. Not severe no worse than the North Pole but it takes some time to recover but it will. OK now we have some pictures of you when you arrived at the South Pole. This was the beginning of this great adventure What was it like when you found me set foot on the continent there. It was amazing being there. Having spent so much time organizing it and trying to do the research that's never been done before finally making it to our goal was tremendously satisfying.

I medically did you prove anything you think for people with with diabetes. Well Dr. Goodpasture will look at that and publish his research. What we've proved I hope is that people with diabetes can live rewarding lives that children can be inspired to live. And manage their health better. We've also seen that my fat levels went down my fitness increase my blood pressure decreased my retinas were not adversely damaged by the U.V. light the importance of exercise I guess. There you have it any time. Well welcome back man we're glad you made it back safely thanks very much. It was a great adventure and we were pleased and honored to follow it along with you. And again if anybody wants to be hooked up with the Cure walk dot com website you can simply go to our website. You can see a lot of the pictures of will there and some streaming video and much more. Get hooked up with your walk dot com and make your donations now coming up. You may want to brush up on your bingo lingo. We're headed to one of the biggest games in the burgh That's next on queue.

Here's an easy way to get information on a recent story or find out about upcoming guests you can get web addresses or phone numbers we've given and you can send us your comments. Just go to our website. Q.E.D. dot org and click on queue. Hello I'm Carol Lee. It's one of Pittsburgh's favorite pastimes and it's no wonder given that the game of bingo was developed where else right here in Pittsburgh a man named Hugh J Ward came up with the concept and began running games at carnivals in the early 1920s and shortly after that word took bingo on the road and clickety click 66 the rest is history. Well here in Pittsburgh bingo players take their game seriously and on cue contributors Dave and Dave found that out when they recently joined in the biggest bingo game in Allegheny County at the Lithuanian citizens society on Pittsburgh's south side. My name is Barbara Hooper and I'm the manager of the bank. You got two floors below.

Yes but there isn't one do you want to force us into that bigger problem is bigger. We play every Wednesday and Sunday. Start at seven and we began around 20 after seven. Tell us Lovato at the club. People at this building back in 1972 and since then we've had over 300 members standing being go. There's helped us quite a bit because it's record with the proceeds from the bingo we support quite a few charities in the point. How much does it cost how it cost $10 as your minimum prize that she won 20 games secretly or 20 games for $10 were kind of new to get what can we expect out there when things really get underway. What's going to happen. Well you gotta see the number board lad out. And then when you hear somebody call bingo you're going to hear the shots. Are they going to say shucks. No but that's close enough to speak to hundreds of children. They don't cheat and it's I'm not really sure what's happening here. Thanks Mike. With

some ice water. But you have to make it to what it is a joy to help you get into my nose to keep looking at you. There give a grade of me I know you're not supposed to do that why do it feel good if you when you doing trash talking just like everybody at that. Any special equipment with the book I didn't know I had an injury. I just think I'm gonna do it if I want to take it on the beach and you can take it home suppose it was my first big you know my mother got the paper in the office I didn't get that letter will I ever see that you are right it is her shredder on the premises to have me do these markers or marking the cards with we're going to get those and you said yourself so you have to buy them you have to have a daughter and you have to have that if you like rent one rent on their fitness

model. He's never done up for something you should know we're not much you can take this. We get paid a lot. Why do you suppose they call that a dog rescue dog you know your dog because you can still. This was nice to see when we hear Santa Claus and no Englishman over to you see this thing or that says theirs are in for some time and are not going to go home a dollar on a what do you get that often. So don't watch anything on Syria writing something on the left and really it was a new study group why is it called a dobber not a marker you should know you're the manager of the average depth of the car. Maybe a dab or a marker to highlight prints that

demeaning guys here. Hello sky. Many women do need that stuff when you're young and don't people have kind of good luck charms. Oh yes that's right that your granddaughter is much better than old. Don't don't don't condone it. They just think of actually naming a granddaughter to go to the dog And Bingo I got this in Vegas last years who claim to go to college. Hope I'm going to be winning a lot of money second Alford. Will she be majoring in things. All right said at the baby gate and that brings you like a thing you want to borrow him. Well I'm going to know the rules in the case of an omen I give it. Was this an elephant a loss etc. is this is you good looking. Well this thing was in there with the song because I think you know I'm going to be our engineer because me

I mean you know really I N G B. He didn't think it was his new name. There was a cat spotted cat as if some kind of fever or something new so you have lots of these at home and you know I bring in song. He's going to marry. Yeah like I just don't go through it like a candidate to look for nothing. Just want to talk. Talk to me trust me one thing. No no no no. What's the story. Is it yes or no. Used to work for me. Oh yeah. To boss him around. You know what to do. And lift him along the way he's doing. I'm not so sure he knows what he's doing now. Oh he's a good long way ahead of you that you're trying to beat us up. These are times when ya'll have to look to get us going on

this one you got drink the 5 percent of the fall of the earth that got it but you never had a way to get that much like not my federal leaders. One mouse click on the fourth one all enjoy. Also I don't have a mind of the tater sticks must promise really were to get this liquor at the supermarket. Generally good as anybody ever called main good thing they never. Think oh just a bit now and then she disappeared as your guest was just here to think about that and whatever they're finding out she's in her closely women your ways with the woman gang have a diet or football game for years and you could come in here most people think it's mostly older women used to be your target was this awesome.

Or if you're a young woman what are you doing here. Friends tease me to meet them out at the clubs. That's all I'm after because what are some tips or some tips for telling someone to get very long. Lots of reasoning in Walker's you know and trading partner it's like any such a special secret you know nothing. Tips for you. But even if it is at your feet you believe that this is where picks up isn't. This is where it gets tense. Yes this is where the excitement builds this is where the crowd gets next right. I'm feeling a rush you do. I'm on the plane and you are there. Thank you very seriously for some of the players about the game to relax. I don't think there were lax and that is amazing how they keep track of those cards and they've never Buchan them a bigger as play

every Sunday and Wednesday evening at the Lithuanian citizens society except during the holiday season and games start promptly at 7:30 PM. For more information log onto our Web site to view QED dot org. Click on the on queue button on the first page. Now here is a look at what's happening tomorrow in queue. What kind of a parent are you. Tomorrow on cue we look at the pitfalls of something called hyper parenting. Now it's a term used to describe her and to schedule too many activities and are too involved in their child's lives. Also tomorrow scenes from on orbit now showing at the Carnegie Science Center. This compelling video shows what is supposed to happen when a space shuttle re-enters earth's atmosphere and a special exhibit at the Heinz history center celebrates more than a hundred years of African-American girls there tomorrow. Thank you for joining us we hope that you'll join us again tomorrow evening at 7:30. Good.

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