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• The night before your quit date, get rid of all your tobacco. Be sure to check your locker, your car, your equipment bag - any place you may have stashed a tin or a pouch.
  
  
• Stock up on substitutes. Try gum, hard candy, raisins, popcorn, cloves, carrots or cinnamon sticks, toothpicks, sunflower seeds, or non-tobacco look-alikes that contain herbs or mint. Put these in the same places you used to keep your dip or chew.
  
  
• Contact Student Health Services or Health Education Services 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, teammates, and athletic trainer 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 uses chew or dip, ask them 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 or Email jpalmore@gmu.edu.

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