Community Action Program of Western Indiana

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 the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Commission, a division of the Indiana State Department of Health.

Indiana Tobacco Quitline

Visit the Indiana Tobacco Quitline website at:

QuitNowIndiana

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:

Plan you quit attempt to improve your chance of success
Cope with cravings
Find things you can do with your hands
Find ways to change the behaviors that remind you to smoke
Avoid weight gain

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

Dangers of Secondhand Smoke

According to the Surgeon General’s Report from 2010, secondhand smoke can cause serious health problems in children and adults. Secondhand smoke can trigger an asthma attack and cause more severe and frequent asthma attacks. Secondhand smoke increases the risk for SIDS. Infants who die from SIDS have higher concentrations of nicotine in their lungs and higher levels of cotinine (a biological marker for secondhand smoke exposure) than infants who die from other causes. For adults, exposure to secondhand smoke has immediate adverse effects on the cardiovascular system and can cause coronary heart disease. Even brief exposure can damage the lining of blood vessels and cause blood platelets to become stickier. These changes can cause a deadly heart attack. Secondhand smoke causes an estimated 3,400 lung cancer deaths among U.S. nonsmokers each year. Even brief exposure can damage cells in ways that set the cancer process in motion. The longer the duration and the higher the level of exposure to secondhand smoke, the greater the risk of developing lung cancer. These are just a few of the reasons why we need to protect everyone with smokefree air laws.

If you support smokefree air laws and would like to join our efforts to get them in place locally and at the state level, let us know.

If you or someone you know has been affected by secondhand smoke and have a story to tell, let us know

Contact Kathy Walker kwalker@capwi.org or call her at 793-4881.