Free Classes at Dowling College Help Smokers Learn To Be Tobacco Free

 (Oakdale, N.Y.) With the help of Dowling College, you CAN quit smoking. Quitting smoking has immediate as well as long-term benefits for you and your loved ones.  Using proven cessation treatments, such as group counseling, can double your chance of success.  Learn to be tobacco free with this helpful smoking cessation program that is free and open to the public.

This program will be held at Dowling’s Brookhaven Campus in Room B123 from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays on June 3, 10, 17, 24; July 1, 8 & 29, 2008.

Participants will:

• Learn strategies and receive support to stop smoking
• Learn skills to stay tobacco-free
• Free private consultation for evaluation by a nurse practitioner for medicine to help you quit
• Certificate earned for completion

This six-week program teaches skills & strategies to build awareness and uses group support to empower the individual who wishes to quit smoking. This program is sponsored by Suffolk County Department of Health Education and Dowling College Health Services.  A consultation with a nurse practitioner to assess how medicine may help is available at the third session.  For more information, please call 631-244-1360 or e-mail TeggeC@dowling.edu.

About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in several disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education. www.Dowling.edu