Employee Health & Well-Being
Tobacco Cessation
Smoke Free Campus Resource Brochure
GREAT AMERICAN SMOKEOUT
November 19, 2009 is the 34th annual Great American Smokeout. This event helps raise awareness about the benefits of smoking cessation and provides smokers with the resources and support they need to quit smoking for the day. Quitting smoking is not easy, but it is a fight you can win. By using self-help materials, medication, and/or support programs for your quit attempt, you can double your chances of being successful. By using more than one of these resources, you can increase your chances of staying quit for good.
This month EHWB encourages you to join us in celebrating our smoke-free campus by participating in our own Great American Smokeout, called “Blow Bubbles, Not Smoke!” If you would like to quit smoking on November 19, we will provide you with smoking cessation information throughout the month of November. In addition, EHWB will provide all participants with a quit kit prior to November 19, so that they are prepared for their quit attempt in more ways than one. The quit kits will include coupons for nicotine replacement therapy (Nicoderm CQ, Nicorette gum, or Commit lozenges), a stress ball, and information about how and why you can quit smoking.
If you would like to join the EHWB Great American Smokeout, learn more about smoking cessation, and/or learn how to help others quit smoking, please contact EHWB by email at healthandwellbeing@muohio.edu or 513-529-EHWB.
Celebrate Smoke Free Miami & the Great American Smokeout 2009
QUIT KITS
Quit Kits contain items and information to help you quit using tobacco.
Click here to request a free quit kit.
Small Group & Individual Format
“Freedom from Smoking” is a program through the American Lung Association. This 7-week program (8-sessions) is led by Marlene Diers, Assistant Director of EHWB and a certified smoking cessation facilitator. Participants will be taken through steps to stay smoke free by developing skills for good stress management, weight control, assertive communication and exercise.
Eligibility: This program is available to all Miami University employees and benefit-eligible spouses/domestic partners/dependents (18+ years). Graduate Assistants and student employees are not eligible to participate.
Cost: A $30 program fee will be waived if the participant attends 7 of the 8 sessions. Any participant not meeting the attendance criteria will be required to pay the program fee through payroll deduction. Benefit-eligible participants will require a payroll deduction form to be signed by the employee.
Registration is required. Contact EHWB about upcoming “Freedom from Smoking” classes or to schedule an individual program.
Online Format
Visit the American Lung Association’s website to enroll in a FREE online version of “Freedom from Smoking.” Quitting smoking can evoke a lot of feelings: fear, resentment, relief, and so on. If you stay committed to the program and complete all of the assignments you have a good chance of remaining smoke-free for good. Millions of people have quit smoking and you can do it too!
OHIO TOBACCO QUIT LINE
1-800-QUIT-NOW (or 1-800-784-8669)
The Ohio Tobacco QUIT LINE, 800-QUIT-NOW, is Ohio’s FREE telephone cessation service for Ohioans ready to end tobacco addiction. It is a program provided by the Ohio Department of Health.
Available free of charge to all Ohio residents, the Ohio Tobacco QUIT LINE provides individualized tobacco-quitting guidance from trained, experienced cessation specialists.
RESOURCES
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