Fountain/Warren Tobacco Prevention & Cessation Program

Any way you look at it, tobacco is bad for Indiana!

The Fountain/Warren Tobacco Prevention & Cessation Program works with school corporations, employers, healthcare providers, local and state government, and community organizations to; reduce youth smoking rates, reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, reduce adult smoking rates, and maintain an infrastructure necessary to reduce tobacco use in the community. The program is overseen by an Advisory Board that meets every other month on the second Wednesday of the month. The public is welcome to attend.

For more information contact Kathy Walker at 765-793-4881 or by email at kwalker@capwi.org. Check out the latest version of the Fountain/Warren Co. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation Program "newsletter".

Tobacco kills thousands of Hoosiers every year, leaving behind heart-broken families and costing Indiana's taxpayers millions of healthcare dollars. To learn more about tobacco's harmful effects on Indiana, visit

www.itpc.in.gov

Want to Quit?

 

Indiana Tobacco Quitline

Visit the Indiana Tobacco Quitline website at:

www.indianatobaccoquitline.net

A highly effective, evidence-based tobacco cessation program available by phone, free of charge to Indiana residents. Call 1-800-784-8669.

Quit coaches offer practical advice, such as teaching you to:

The quitline is available 7 days a week: 8:00 am - 12:00 am EST

Services are available in both English and Spanish. TTY services are available for the hearing impaired at TTY: 877-777-6534

Quit Now Contest

Sign up for the Quit Now contest for a chance to win prize money totaling $5,000, to be provided to the top three winners, courtesy of AmeriHealth Mercy of Indiana, the presenting sponsor of the contest. The top prize winner, who successfully quits smoking from October 1st to October 31st, 2010, and whose name is randomly drawn, will receive $2,500 as the grand prize winner. The second and third place winners will receive $1,500 and $1,000, respectively.

To sign up for the “Quit Now Indiana” contest, entrants must be at least 18 years of age, a legal resident of Indiana and a regular user of tobacco. Sign up online at www.INShape.IN.gov by September 30th.

Additional Resources:

Centers for Disease Control

My Last Dip, a free web-based cessation program for young tobacco chewers ages 14-25

2006 Surgeon General's Report on Secondhand Smoke

American Lung Association

American Cancer Society

American Heart Association

Indiana Rural Health Association

Tobacco Control Act: Resources & FDA Regulation