 If you are in Group 1, you will receive the usual care as provided by the cardiology service, and a booklet about coping with heart failure. Dietary counseling will be provided once a month to encourage you to follow to a low sodium diet, with the goal of limiting sodium to 2 grams per day. The dietary counseling will include education about the effects of sodium for patients with heart failure, sources of sodium in the diet, reading food labels, identifying low-sodium alternatives to high-sodium foods, and using other types of flavorings rather than salt and other high-sodium condiments. You will be given the booklet How to Follow a Low Sodium Diet from the Heart Failure Society of America appendix S and a copy of the American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook, 3rd edition. If you are a tobacco user or have recently quit, you will be referred to the MD Anderson Tobacco Treatment program. At the end of 16 weeks, after you have completed your 4 month visit in the BRTC, you will be offered exercise training described below. If you want to participate in the exercise training, you may do so at that time. 