• The night before your quit date, get rid of all your cigarettes. Be sure to check your desk, your car, and your purse or book bag - any place you may have a pack of cigarettes. Get rid of ashtrays, lighters and matches.
  
  
• Stock up on substitutes. Try gum, hard candy, raisins, popcorn, carrot or cinnamon sticks, toothpicks, or sunflower seeds. Put these in the same places you used to keep your cigarettes. Want some freebies? Stop by and see us in Health Education Services (703) 993-3690/3686 for FREE candy or gum and a FREE Quit Kit.
  
  
• Contact Student Health Services (703) 993-2831 if you want to get nicotine replacement products and/or Zyban. These products can ease your withdrawal reactions and help you to succeed in quitting.

Build a "Support Team"; let your family, friends, schoolmates, and coworkers know you're quitting. Ask your support team to be on hand to listen and encourage you when the going gets rough. Ask them to be patient with you if you are not your usual, wonderful self for a week or two after you quit. Suggest ways for them to help, like joining you for a run or a walk and by helping you to find ways to keep busy while telling you THEY KNOW YOU CAN DO IT! If anybody in your support team has quit, ask them for tips! If anybody smokes around you, ask him or her not to offer you any. They don't have to quit themselves to be supportive, but maybe someone will want to quit with you! You can reach Health Education Services at (703) 993- 3690/3686.

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Health Education Services
(703) 993-3690/3686
SUB I, Room 219J