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Stop smoking training offered
Breaking the tobacco addiction may become less of a struggle, thanks to an effort by the Cayman Islands Cancer Society in conjunction with an expert in the area of smoking cessation. Health professionals and others in the community are being recruited as facilitators for a nicotine dependence treatment program called StartSmart. The program, developed by [...]
Program helps expectant, new mothers stop smoking
Baby and Me Tobacco Free program at the Northeast Colorado Health Department Pregnant residents in Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips counties can sign up for the program and receive some benefits over and beyond the value of simply quitting smoking, said Sherree Bustos, coordinator of the program. This is an effort to get pregnant women [...]
Quit smoking for American Heart Month
SUMMIT COUNTY — According to Susan Westhof of the Summit Prevention Alliance, February is American Heart Month — a time to lose weight, eat better, exercise more and quit smoking. Westhof said in an e-mail that more than 4,300 Coloradoans die every year from tobacco-related illnesses, and the average tobacco user spends about $1,500 a [...]
Program Helps Low-Income Smokers Kick Habit
The overall U.S. smoking rate is half what it was in the 1960s. But this isn’t true among low-income Americans: They’re still smoking as much as everyone was a generation ago. Massachusetts health officials say it doesn’t have to be this way. They say they’ve found a way to get even the most hard-core smokers [...]
State siphons tobacco-settlement funds
If you smoke and itch to quit, don’t look to the state for help. Despite an annual infusion of about $300 million from the landmark tobacco settlement, Illinois continues to spend less than most others on programs designed to prevent people from lighting up, according to a national ranking. Illinois finished 41st out of the [...]
Pennsylvania Offers Free Nicotine Patches, Support for Tobacco Users Trying to Quit
HARRISBURG, Pa., – The Department of Health will provide free nicotine patches to help Pennsylvanians who are trying to quit tobacco starting Monday, Jan. 25. Kits will be offered — while supplies last — through the PA Free Quitline at 1-800-QUIT-NOW. The Nicotine Replacement Therapy, or NRT, kits were paid for by funding from a [...]
Students against smoking
High school students across Kentucky gathered at the Adron Doran University Center (ADUC) last week for the annual Help Overcome Tobacco Conference. Students who attended the conference said the Help Overcome Tobacco (HOT) organization is making a difference. “I think it is very beneficial because we wrote letters to our principal and the school system,” [...]
Virginia, the US state built on tobacco, goes smoke-free
WASHINGTON — The US state of Virginia is poised to ban smoking in most restaurants and bars as of midnight on Tuesday, turning the page on 400 years of history that is tightly tied to tobacco. “December 1st is an historic day in that we are enacting a smoking ban across the Commonwealth, which is [...]
UM to ban tobacco products on campus starting in fall 2011
The University of Montana is poised to join a growing roster of colleges nationwide banning tobacco on campus. The ban is set to go into effect in the fall of 2011, and would be the second campuswide smoking ban in Montana – as Montana Tech in Butte is going tobacco-free in 2010. Montana State University [...]
Drug-free youth coalition funds go up in smoke
JANESVILLE — Much of Rock County Youth2Youth’s funding went up in smoke when Wisconsin’s anti-smoking and smoking cessation programs lost 55 percent of their state funding. Funds in the 2009-11 budget signed by Gov. Jim Doyle cut total funding for anti-tobacco programs by more than half, from $15.3 million a year to $6.9 million. Debbie [...]
CDC urges state schools to stay on health path
JACKSON — A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official Monday urged Mississippi education leaders to continue fighting obesity and tobacco use in the state’s schools. The CDC recently released a report showing the state has made significant progress in reducing student access to tobacco and unhealthy snacks on school grounds, and in educating [...]
Sign up for the “I Quit” Smoking Cessation Program
Take advantage of the great resource that is available to you right here: Concordia University is among the small percentage of large employers in Canada that offer a comprehensive Smoking Cessation Program for its employees and faculty members. The “I Quit” program is a Smoking Cessation Group Program for Concordia staff and faculty who are [...]
How to Quit Smoking and Start Living
Only a smoker will know the feeling of emancipation that comes with the first morning puff. As the vicious dark smoke enters the lungs and mingles with the blood waiting for ablution. The bad blood however gets more than it bargained for; more carbon. As the nicotine enters the blood stream and sails towards the [...]
Pay poorer smokers to quit, heart lobby urges
Australians should be paid to quit smoking to help reduce the burden of heart disease in poorer outer suburban and regional areas, the head of the Heart Foundation of Victoria, Kathy Bell, says. The call came as a new survey of about 20,000 people found the municipality of Dandenong in Melbourne’s outer south-east had the [...]
