EVANSTON DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
conducted
by
Joel Spitzer
Saturday, January 12, 2008
10:00 AM to Noon
Evanston
Civic Center
2100 Ridge Avenue ▪
Evanston, Illinois ▪ Room 2200
We will show you how to overcome the withdrawal
and then be able to stay off in “One Easy Lesson.”*
Topics to be covered include:
Why You Smoke
Why You Should Quit
How to Break the Nicotine Addiction
How to Stay Nicotine Free for the Rest of Your Life
*Attending the lesson will be easy. Quitting smoking, on the other hand, may be easy or may be difficult. It is impossible to predict what quitting will be like for any individual. While it may be harder for some smokers to stop than for others, it is possible for all. Cigarette smoking is a powerful form of nicotine addiction. If you treat nicotine addiction like any other drug addiction, you will control it. If you treat it like a bad habit, you will ultimately fail. Our program will teach you about addiction and how to treat it. Follow our advice and in two weeks you will be rid of nicotine and then be free to choose whether or not you wish to remain permanently off all nicotine products.
About the Speaker:
Joel Spitzer has over 30 years of experience in the development and implementation of smoking cessation programs for adults and smoking prevention programs for children in the Chicagoland area. He has conducted over 350 stop smoking clinics for over 4,500 participants for the American Cancer Society, the Rush North Shore Medical Center, the Skokie Health Department and now for the Evanston Department of Health and Human Services. He has also presented over 690 educational seminars to approximately 100,000 children and adults on smoking prevention.
| Joel Spitzer is no longer conducting community based six session Stop Smoking Clinics. The materials that were covered in the clinics have all been made freely available online at www.whyquit.com/joel. People who live or work in Evanston and who do not have Internet access can contact the Evanston Department of Health and Human Services to make arrangements for getting these materials. Pre-registered seminar participants will receive a free DVD with videos of the lessons taught in the clinic, along with a PDF version of a book with all of the follow-up materials that were used in the clinic as well as over 90 reinforcement articles. |
For further information or to register call:
Evanston
Department of Health
and Human Services
(847) 866-2949