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Tips to Help You Quit
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When you first try to quit, change your routine
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Get rid of ALL cigarettes and ashtrays in your home, car, or workplace
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Ask your family, friends, and coworkers for support
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Stay in nonsmoking areas
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Breathe in deeply when you feel the urge to smoke
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Keep yourself busy
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Reward yourself often
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Reduce stress
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Distract yourself from urges to smoke
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Plan something enjoyable to do every day
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Drink a lot of water and other fluids |
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Go to the Chat Room now!
Moderated Sessions
The Chat Room will offer regular moderated sessions so that smokers can speak with a Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist or Counselor and ask questions freely. The Chat Room will also be available 24/7/365 so smokers can contact one another, and share advice and strategies from others who are going through the same process.
Moderated Sessions Schedule
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MONDAYS at 7:00 PM (EST)
Joyce Wagner, Physician Assistant
Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist
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TUESDAYS at 7:00 PM (EST)
Jackie Eloy
Tobacco Counselor
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WEDNESDAYS at 6:30 PM (EST)
Tricia Hynes
Tobacco Counselor
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Additional dates and times to be announced.
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About the Florida Keys Area Health Education Center
Tobacco Chat Room
Purpose
The Florida Keys AHEC is proud to introduce the Quit Smoking Now Chat Room. This resource is dedicated to help smokers who have quit and seek additional support and for those who are contemplating quitting and wish to talk to someone before making that commitment.
We trust you find the Chat Room a beneficial tool to help you become tobacco free. Please contact us at 305-743-7111 or quitnow@fkahec.org with any questions or comments.
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Chat Room Etiquette
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Do treat other people and their opinions with the same respect and consideration that you believe you should receive. You can disagree without being impolite, hurtful or angry. Offensive behavior is grounds for being banned from the chat room.
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This is not a social chat room but one designed to help those who are quitting smoking. People who come to this chat room are seeking support, advice and information; they are not looking for messages that will make them feel uncomfortable. |
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Don’t transmit any information that could be taken as threatening, offensive or hateful.
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Do let others take their turn to ask or answer a question in a crowded room.
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Do learn from others.
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USING ALL CAPITALS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF SHOUTING!!!
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PLEASE REMEMBER TO MAINTAIN PROPER CHAT ROOM
ETIQUETTE AT ALL TIMES.
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If you’re ready to quit, we’re ready to help!
Just call 743-7111 or email Quit Smoking Now to Sign-Up Today! |
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