December 28, 2006
Quit smoking - Many employers do little to help workers quit smoking (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Many employers do little to help workers quit smoking (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
NEW YORK — Only 4 percent of large employers offer comprehensive programs to help employees quit smoking, despite higher health costs for smokers and smoking breaks that could cost employers nine weeks of lost productivity a year, according to a 2006 study by the American Journal of Health Promotion.
Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com
Make this the year you quit (for real) (Courier-Post)
I quit smoking on New Year's. I also quit when I started wrestling in college, when I had surgery on my shoulders, when my kids were born and various other times when the habit's tolls caught up with me.
Source: www.courierpostonline.com
New tax swells quit-smoking classes (Tucson Citizen)
Arizona's just instituted 82-cents-per-pack cigarette tax and a new law that restricts smoking in public places apparently are driving smokers into cessation programs at a record rate.
Source: www.tucsoncitizen.com
Free smoking cessation classes being offered (The Champaign News-Gazette)
DANVILLE With New Year's Eve comes thoughts of New Year's resolutions. One of the top 10 resolutions for those who make them is to stop smoking. The Vermilion County Health Department stands ready to help those people who are ready to quit by offering free smoking cessation classes beginning Jan. 4.
Source: www.news-gazette.com
