STOP SMOKING
Get help: the when, where and how of quitting. When you get tobacco out of your life, you take a giant step towards better health.
Tobacco use is the number one preventable cause of death. The best way to quit tobacco is to never start. But if you use tobacco, you may enjoy these benefits if you quit:
• Bring down your high blood pressure
• Lower your risk for a stroke
• Lower your risk for many cancers
• Improve your circulation and lung function
• Lower your risk for male impotence
• Improve the health of those around you, including your family
• Reduce the chances that your child will become a smoker
• Save money
If you need help quitting, talk with your doctor. Medications may help you quit.
The following sites offer more information and resources:
Tobacco Free Partners
A collaborative community effort that offers stop-smoking programs, counseling and other help.
www.tobaccofreepartners.org/
American Cancer Society
Reliable information about how to quit smoking.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/PED_10.asp
American Lung Association of Michigan
Offers Not On Tobacco, a smoking cessation program for teens.
http://www.midlandlung.org/site/c.kqLNIUOCKrF/b.4950565/k.323A/Teen_Tobacco_Cessation_Options.htm
Michigan Department of Community Health
A list of smoking cessation programs and resources.
Government Resources on Smoking Cessation
Spectrum Health Tobacco Cessation
Saint Mary’s Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Information
Metro Health Tobacco Free For Good
Allegan General Hospital Freedom from Smoking
Borgess-Pipp Health Center Smoking Cessation
Holland Hospital Tobacco Cessation Brochure
Mercy Health Partners Quit Smoking
Zeeland Hospital Tobacco Cessation Resources