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St. Vincent's Medical Center help smokers quit
Jason Hey
Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: Features
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Trying to kick your smoking habit, but having trouble getting motivated? Thinking about cutting out the smokes for your New Year's resolution?
Then the counseling center has a solution for you. This month, St. Vincent's Medical Center is providing a free class for students who want to drop their smoking habit.
"I think the class has the potential to help many students control this notorious and unpleasant habit," said senior Ashley Greco.
The class will take place in the counseling center across from Roncalli Hall and will be coordinated by Cheryl Carlson.
"Student smokers are a common sight around campus. I think a free class that helps you overcome the addiction is something that can really help the student body as a whole," said junior Dave Rabinowitz.
In coordination with the counseling center, Teen Smokers Stoppers, underwritten by St. Vincent's SWIM Across the Sound, is working hard to promote health and non- smoking.
The program, which has provided free interactive teen smoking prevention classes around Conn. since 1996, has visited over 110 schools, and has touched over 88,000 teens.
More than 5,700 of them have actually quit smoking after taking the classes.
Mary Ellen Bolcer & Susan Richards, originators of Teen Smoke Stoppers, lead the class. By showing students actual lungs affected by cancer and demonstrating real life events and activities caused by smoking, the program is both compelling and effective.
In order to sign up for the class, students must contact Cheryl Carlson in the counseling center at 371-7955.
After contact has been made, Mary Ellen & Susan of Smoke Stoppers will get in touch with you to find out the best time to meet with them to begin the program.
"By participating in this cessation, we promise you that you will not continue to smoke for as long as the cigarette companies say you will, and you will not end up spending 75,000 dollars on cigarettes like the companies say as well," said Mary Ellen Bolcer.
It would seem that there is no time better than now to drop a habit like smoking. It is common knowledge that smoking is seriously harmful to the human body.
"Quitting smoking is much easier said than done. It is a lot harder than it looks," said senior Nicolas Valentino.
If smoking is something that you would like to rid from your life forever, the counseling center in collaboration with Teen Smoke Stoppers can change your life.
Then the counseling center has a solution for you. This month, St. Vincent's Medical Center is providing a free class for students who want to drop their smoking habit.
"I think the class has the potential to help many students control this notorious and unpleasant habit," said senior Ashley Greco.
The class will take place in the counseling center across from Roncalli Hall and will be coordinated by Cheryl Carlson.
"Student smokers are a common sight around campus. I think a free class that helps you overcome the addiction is something that can really help the student body as a whole," said junior Dave Rabinowitz.
In coordination with the counseling center, Teen Smokers Stoppers, underwritten by St. Vincent's SWIM Across the Sound, is working hard to promote health and non- smoking.
The program, which has provided free interactive teen smoking prevention classes around Conn. since 1996, has visited over 110 schools, and has touched over 88,000 teens.
More than 5,700 of them have actually quit smoking after taking the classes.
Mary Ellen Bolcer & Susan Richards, originators of Teen Smoke Stoppers, lead the class. By showing students actual lungs affected by cancer and demonstrating real life events and activities caused by smoking, the program is both compelling and effective.
In order to sign up for the class, students must contact Cheryl Carlson in the counseling center at 371-7955.
After contact has been made, Mary Ellen & Susan of Smoke Stoppers will get in touch with you to find out the best time to meet with them to begin the program.
"By participating in this cessation, we promise you that you will not continue to smoke for as long as the cigarette companies say you will, and you will not end up spending 75,000 dollars on cigarettes like the companies say as well," said Mary Ellen Bolcer.
It would seem that there is no time better than now to drop a habit like smoking. It is common knowledge that smoking is seriously harmful to the human body.
"Quitting smoking is much easier said than done. It is a lot harder than it looks," said senior Nicolas Valentino.
If smoking is something that you would like to rid from your life forever, the counseling center in collaboration with Teen Smoke Stoppers can change your life.
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