~ A 'Teachable' Moment ~

If you still need incentives to quit smoking or in some of our cases to stay quit, you could try cancer screening. Knowing that smoking significantly increases your risk for head, neck, and lung cancer may not be incentive enough to make you stop smoking or keep you from picking one up after having quit for any period of time. Discovering that secondhand smoke is freakishly unhealthy for your children, partner, pets or the people in riding in your car may not be the most powerful incentive either. If you're really ready to kick the habit or still fighting urges after quitting, you may want to try something new.
Lung cancer screening
The Mayo Clinic found that lung cancer screening helps some people stop smoking and can be added encouragement for others to never pick up another cigarette. Dr Matthew Clark says, "Our results indicate that people who participate in cancer screening were motivated to quit smoking. Cancer screening may present a 'teachable moment'." (And who couldn’t use more of those??) That is, when people learn how their lungs function and how smoking affects their organs, they may be more motivated to stop or stay stopped smoking.
If patients receive abnormal lung cancer screening results, they're (not surprisingly) even more motivated to quit. The more abnormal lung screenings they receive, the easier it is to quit. Lung cancer is the most preventable cancer; smoking causes 85% of lung cancer diseases.