The Chelsea Standard
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Program encourages people to extinguish smoking habit
By Edward Freundl, Staff Writer
PUBLISHED: January 31, 2008
The "Breathe Free Smoking Cessation Program" is a series of seminars designed by Dr. Arthur Weaver to help people become smoke-free and stay that way.
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The free seminar is being sponsored by the Chelsea Seventh-Day Adventist Church and St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, and will take place at Chelsea Community Hospital's White Oak Center.
The interactive group seminars meet from 7:30 to 9 p.m., beginning Feb. 7 with an introductory session explaining the program and preparing participants for the nicotine withdrawal process.
The program continues each night from Feb. 10 to 14, and concludes Feb. 18 with a "graduation" program.
Participants are instructed in how to handle the smoking urges and what to expect for withdrawal symptoms.
They also learn how to handle the much longer-lasting psychological associations that can cause them to return to the smoking habit.
Each session consists of a video presentation explaining a particular aspect of the smoking problem.
This is followed by group interviews and interaction when participants discuss their success, failures and symptoms experienced.
There is then a lecture by the group coordinator on how best to be successful in becoming and remaining smoke-free, and the benefits of giving up the smoking habit.
One session is used to explain how to stop smoking without gaining excessive weight.
Participants are also given information on other lifestyle changes that increase the likelihood of remaining smoke-free.
Dr. Weaver is a general surgeon and professor of surgery emeritus at Wayne State, serving there for 38 years.
He is widely recognized as metropolitan Detroit's leading anti-smoking crusader.
He has used the program in the Detroit area since 1966 and has helped an estimated 100,000 people stop smoking.
His clinics have been sponsored by several schools and major corporations, and he has shared his expertise in several states and with clinics in Russia, Pakistan and Taiwan.
To register for the program call 475-4103, or leave a message at 734-332-9121.
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