The University of New Mexico is encouraging students, staff and faculty to join smokers across the nation to participate in the Great American Smokeout on Thursday, Nov. 19 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the SUB Atrium. This could be the first day of a life without tobacco.
A variety of information to help inform individuals will be available including tobacco educational activities, cessation and secondhand smoke information, quit kits will be given to those who pledge to quit for 24 hours and free nicotine patches and gum.
The Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, Student Health & Counseling and the Employee Health Promotion Program sponsors the event.
For more information call 277-2795 or e-mail, cosap@unm.edu.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at November 5, 2009 05:03 PM