Upcoming Classes
Dates: Wednesday beginning May 6 for seven weeks
Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Where: Pat Harrison Cancer Resource Center
1206 Spring St,
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
Norton Healthcare Prevention & Wellness Tobacco Cessation Program
Prevention & Wellness
Do cigarettes or tobacco have control over your life? You can stop smoking, and we can help. It may seem impossible, but it’s not. Smoking cessation classes and medication have helped millions of smokers around the nation kick the habit.
Norton Healthcare offers free classes to help you achieve a healthy, smoke-free lifestyle. Classes follow the American Lung Association Freedom From Smoking program, proven to be effective for millions of smokers.
To register for an upcoming class, click here or call (502) 629-1234.
Freedom From Smoking Sessions
The classes meet at locations throughout Louisville and Southern Indiana, for eight 60- to 90-minute sessions over seven weeks:
- Weeks 1 to 3, we focus on behaviors, triggers, what drives you to smoke and medications to help you quit.
- Week 4 is quit week.
- Weeks 5 to 7, we focus on long-term strategies to stay tobacco-free.
Benefits When You Quit
Within 20 minutes after you smoke that last cigarette, your body begins a series of changes that continue for years.
- Twenty minutes after quitting, your heart rate drops.
- Twelve hours after quitting, the carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.
- Two weeks to three months after quitting, your heart attack risk begins to drop. Your lung function begins to improve.
- One to nine months after quitting, your coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
- One year after quitting, your added risk for coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker’s.
- Five to 15 years after quitting, your stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker’s.
- Ten years after quitting, your risk of death from lung cancer is about half that of a smoker’s. Your risks for cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decrease.
- Fifteen years after quitting, your risk for coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmoker’s.
Select classes are offered in Spanish. Please call for more information (502) 899-6842.
Ayudar para dejar de fumar
¿Los cigarros o el tabaco controlan su vida? Usted puede dejar de fumar y podemos ayudarle. Puede parecer imposible, pero no lo es. Las clases y los medicamentos para dejar de fumar han ayudado a millones de fumadores en todo el país a liberarse del hábito de fumar.
Freedom From Smoking
Norton Healthcare ofrece cursos gratuitos para ayudarle a tener un estilo de vida saludable y sin fumar. Las clases usan el programa Freedom From Smoking de la Asociación Americana del Pulmón (American Lung Association), que ha demostrado ser efectivo para millones de fumadores.
Para inscribirse en una clase, haga clic aquí o llame al (502) 899-6842.
Las clases se dan en diferentes lugares en Louisville y el sur de Indiana durante ocho sesiones de 60 a 90 minutos por siete semanas:
- En las semanas 1 a 3 nos enfocamos en las conductas, desencadenantes, lo que lo impulsa a fumar y los medicamentos que pueden ayudarle a dejar el hábito.
- La semana 4 es la semana para dejar de fumar.
En las semanas 5 a 7 nos enfocamos en las estrategias a largo plazo para no volver a fumar.
- En un plazo de 20 minutos después de fumarse ese último cigarro, su cuerpo empieza una serie de cambios que continuarán por años.
- Veinte minutos después de dejar de fumar, la frecuencia cardíaca disminuye.
- Doce horas después de dejar de fumar, el nivel de monóxido de carbono en la sangre disminuye al nivel normal.
- Dos semanas a tres meses después de dejar de fumar, el riesgo de un paro cardíaco empieza a disminuir. La función pulmonar empieza a mejorar.
- Uno a nueve meses después de dejar de fumar, la tos y dificultad para respirar disminuyen.
- Un año después de dejar de fumar, el riesgo agregado de sufrir una enfermedad cardíaca coronaria es la mitad que el de un fumador.
- Cinco a quince años después de dejar de fumar, el riesgo de un derrame cerebral se reduce al de una persona que no fuma.
- Diez años después de dejar de fumar, el riesgo de muerte por cáncer de pulmón es aproximadamente la mitad del de un fumador. Los riesgos de padecer cáncer de la boca, garganta, esófago, vejiga, riñón y páncreas disminuyen.
- Quince años después de dejar de fumar, el riesgo de enfermedad cardíaca coronaria es el de una persona que no fuma
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