CARDIOVASCULAR WELLNESS- SMOKING CESSATION

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WEB RESOURCES

• American Lung Association’s Quit Smoking page: Facts about smoking, secondhand smoke, and lung disease including emphysema and lung cancer.
• Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program (MTCP): Part of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Check out this website to find resources about quitting smoking.
• Craving Journal to print out, fill out, and identify triggers.
• Find other Quit Smoking Resources here including links to other websites as well as information on specific medications and therapies.
• Freedom from Smoking Online: The American Lung Association’s free online smoking cessation program. The program consists of 7 modules that guide you through the process of quitting and give you strategies to stay smoke-free in the future.
• Health Effects of Smoking: Information on diseases caused by tobacco use, such as cancer, heart disease, and respiratory diseases. Also find information on the health effects of smoking during pregnancy.
• Quit Smoking Community Site: Blog posts, discussion boards, news, images, videos, and other means of support to help you quit
• Smokefree.gov allows you to choose the help that best fits your needs. You can get immediate assistance in the form of: An online step-by-step cessation guide, Local and state telephone quitlines, National Cancer Institute's telephone quitline and instant messaging service, and publications, which may be downloaded, printed, or ordered.
• Smoking and Tobacco Use from the CDC is very comprehensive and provides a great summary of resources for the public
• Smoking Cessation: Ready, Set, Go!: This page provides you with some of the basic information you need to make a decision to stop smoking and some places to get help.
• Smoking Cessation Products: A list of the FDA-approved smoking cessation products including nicotine replacement products (skin patches, chewing gum, and lozenges) and products not containing nicotine (Chantix and Zyban).
• Try-to-Stop is a web-based support program sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
• When it comes to quitting smoking, many people find online bulletin boards helpful.  If you're interested in participating in a bulletin board community, here are three good places to start:
  • Become an Ex: On this personalized smoking cessation support site, you’ll find plenty of tools, resources, information, and exercises that will help prepare you to quit. Allows you to create a free confidential profile so that you can set a quit date, track your progress online, complete & save exercises, and join the online community.
  • QuitNet: Don't Quit Alone. Science-based quit smoking strategies, expert resources, and thousands of former smokers will help you stop smoking, and stay stopped.
  • Oprah's Stop Smoking Support Board: Popular discussion board providing information and support.
• Women and Tobacco: Fact sheet on the number of women who smoke in the U.S. with stats on health outcomes including mortality.

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PARTNERS RESOURCES

Low-cost group (and some individual) quit-smoking counseling programs are offered at these locations. Reduced-cost nicotine replacement is usually offered to participants.

• Partner's Healthcare System's Tobacco Treatment Resource Center: Contains great online tools to help you quit.  Here you will find information on how quitting will effect your health and well-being as well as resources and links to help you along the way.

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TELEPHONE SUPPORT PROGRAMS

• Massachusetts Smokers’ Helpline
  1-800-TRY-TO-STOP (1-800-879-8678)
  1-800-8DEJALO (Spanish/Portuguese)
  1-800-TDD-1477 (Hearing Impaired)
• National Quitline (smokers outside MA)
  1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)

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ARTICLES

• Cigarette Smoking and Cardiovascular Diseases: Why cigarette smoking increases the risk of coronary heart disease which can lead to a heart attack, as well as the risk of stroke.
• MGH Tobacco Treatment Service: MGH offers an array of services to help you quit smoking including group counseling, nicotine replacement therapy, and clinical trials of new medications.
• Smokefree.gov Quit Guide: A step-by-step guide to how to quit smoking. Many different tips are offered- choose what works best for you. And don't give up, since studies show that most successful quitters tried multiple times before they became smoke-free.
• Smoking and Tobacco Use- Heart Disease and Stroke: A summary of the sobering statistics that show how much your cardiovascular risks increase by smoking as well as breathing secondhand smoke.
• You Can Quit Smoking: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health campaign to help you make a plan to quit smoking. Tips and tools include a chart to keep track of your progress, how to handle bouts of craving, and how to prevent weight gain once you have quit.

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VIDEOS

• Kick the Smoking Habit!: The harmful effects of smoking and tips to quit smoking.
• Medications that Help You Stop Smoking: How to use nicotine replacement therapy to help you quit the smoking habit.
• Treating Smoking as a Chronic Disease: Continued, active interventions could be the key to helping you quit smoking successfully.

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