Sheryl Melanson
BA, CHC, TTS-C
Free
Coaching for Healthier Habits Expert
Sheryl Melanson Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Life Coaching, Transitions, Relationships, Parenting, Family Dynamics, Divorce, Tobacco Cessation, Wellness, Hospice
- Career Focus
- Certified Health and Lifestyle Coach
- Affiliation
- Coastal Coaching, Coach U, ICF, American Lung Association
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Sheryl is a certified health and lifestyle coach who inspires people to transform limiting habits into mindful choices that express their values and support optimal well-being.
Prior to launching Coastal Coaching, she worked for 7 years with thousands of clients at the Center for Tobacco Independence in Portland, Maine as a Tobacco Cessation Coach. CTI earned consistently high marks from the American Lung Association while its programs became a model for the nation. Tobacco use is one of the most deadly and challenging addictions to overcome. This is because of the numerous hooks it has in a person's life. There's the chemical addiction to nicotine; the habitual triggers; the emotions co-mingled in it; the social aspect; the daily rhythm regulation - the list goes on and on. Like most big life changes, the key to success is PRACTICE! And, here's where your life coach can make all the difference! The right coach can help you focus, resolve ambivalence, identify triggers, create a personal plan, learn from past slips and maintain your commitment. Studies have shown that tobacco users who combine nicotine replacement therapy WITH COACHING have a 2 to 3 times greater chance of success.
Quitting tobacco will improve your health & finances. A pack a day habit today costs as much as a monthly car payment. Each year, 443,000 people die from tobacco-related illness. A Life Coach with expertise in tobacco cessation can help you create a plan, stay on track, reach your goal, and avoid relapse to bad habits.
Sheryl Melanson, CHC, TTS-C (Certified Health Coach, Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist)
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Sheryl Melanson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? - Marianne Williamson
"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."
— Eckhart Tolle
"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth"
— Pema Chödrön
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
Throw your dreams into space like a kite - you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. - Anais Nin
"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
— Eckhart Tolle
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The Burden of Tobacco Use
Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million have a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46 millio U.S. adults smoke cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancers.
The harmful effects of smoking do not end with the smoker. More than 126 million nonsmoking Americans, including children and adults, are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke. Even brief exposure can be dangerous because nonsmokers inhale many of the same carcinogens and toxins in cigarette smoke as smokers.
Secondhand smoke exposure causes serious disease and death, including heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and sudden infant death syndrome, acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more frequent and severe asthma attacks in children. Each year, primarily because of exposure to secondhand smoke, an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer, more than 46,000 die of heart disease, and about 150,000–300,000 children younger than 18 months have lower respiratory tract infections.
Coupled with this enormous health toll is the significant economic burden of tobacco use—more than $96 billion per year in medical expenditures and another $97 billion per year resulting from lost productivity.