Northern Westchester Hospital and Mount Kisco Medical Group Offer Customized Smoking Cessation Program
Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH) and Mount Kisco Medical Group have teamed up to offer a unique new smoking cessation program providing educational and emotional support for people of all ages who want to quit smoking. The free program is customized to meet the needs of each individual participant through a combination of nicotine replacement therapy and innovative methods including social support, hypnotherapy, aromatherapy, and nutritional counseling. Participants of all ages who are at various stages of quitting meet once a week for four weeks at the Hospital in Mount Kisco.
"It takes a long time to quit. The average is five attempts before an individual is smoke-free," said Gayle Johnson, a respiratory therapist at Northern Westchester Hospital, who is running the program. "There have been studies that show that nicotine replacement alone isn't as successful as when it is combined with social support."
Funding for this program was provided by POW'R To Be Tobacco Free Cessation Center, one of 19 smoking cessation centers in New York State that are funded through a grant by the New York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program to the American Lung Association of New York, Inc.
The next session will begin on Thursday, September 4, 2008. Subsequent sessions begin Thursday, October 2, 2008, and Thursday, October 30, 2008. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served and there is a $2 on-site parking fee. For more information or to register, please call (914) 666-1182 or register online at www.nwhc.net.
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