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Jan. 31, 2005
Marquette General to offer nicotine cessation sessions
Upper
Michigan Behavioral Health, a service of Marquette General Health
System, will soon offer a series of
smoking cessation classes to help people of all ages quit smoking
and/or chewing tobacco.
Entitled “Quit and Stay Quit – Nicotine,” the 24-session,
12-week program will use the Quit & Stay Quit workbook series authored
by Terry A. Rustin, MD, a specialist in addiction medicine. Rustin, an assistant
professor at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, is the Medical
Director of the Addiction Treatment program at the Harris County Psychiatric
Center.
Sessions, scheduled for Tuesdays and Wednesdays beginning in February, will
each run for one and one-half hours.
Jennifer Spear, a social worker and outpatient behavioral health counselor
at Marquette General, will facilitate the group.
The cost of the program is $500, which is equivalent to the cost of a daily
pack of cigarettes at approximately $5 per pack.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated 25.6 million
men (25.2 percent) and 22.6 million women (20.7 percent) — about one-third
of adults — smoke in the United States. These people are at higher risk
of heart attack and stroke.
In the U.S., some 400,000 deaths annually are attributed to smoking.
For more information about the smoking cessation classes, call Spear at Upper
Michigan Behavioral Health at MGHS at 906-225-3160.
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