Tri-County QUITS Tobacco Cessation is here to help you quit smoking.
We work with local healthcare providers and businesses to provide education, resources, support and assistance.
The Cessation Center also offers local stop-smoking classes, educational materials, and referrals.
What We Provide
- Training, technical assistance and follow-up support to healthcare providers and organizations
- Support and technical assistance to local employers on tobacco dependence, cessation and tobacco-free policy development
- Monthly cessation programs throughout Oneida, Herkimer and Madison counties
Stop Smoking Classes
Take Control
The Take Control Stop Smoking program meets three times a month and teaches individuals ways to put the light out on smoking.
We incorporate several methods that are proven to help people quit smoking.
These methods are:
- behavior modification
- education
- hypnosis
- group support.
These methods combined allows for even greater success. Call (315) 624-5297 to sign up or for more information.
Why should I quit?
- If you were injected all at once with the nicotine in a pack of cigarettes, you would die.
- Every day 1,200 Americans die from smoking. This is equivalent to two fully loaded jumbo jets crashing every day with no survivors.
- More than 2,000 deaths of infants under one-year old are attributable to smoking by mothers.
- 60% of children who smoke start by the age of 12.
- Children who smoke are 15 times more likely than non-smokers to go on to use narcotic drugs.
- The cigarette is the single most common cause of fires; one third of home fire deaths result from smoking.
- More than 6 million Americans under the age of 18 use tobacco. Every day, more than 3,000 children start smoking.
- An estimated 17 billion of the 500 billion cigarettes smoked a year are smoked by kids under 18.
- Smoking kills more than 420,000 Americans a year. This is more than the combined deaths from homicide, suicide, AIDS, automobile accidents, alcohol and drugs.
- Cigarette smoking contains more than 4,000 chemicals; more than 30 are known to cause cancer. Smokers retain in their lungs more than 70% of the tar and nicotine they inhale.
Colleges for Change
Changing the Social Acceptability of Tobacco on Campus and in the Surrounding Community
Contact Us
Julie Zayksoski
(315) 624.5371
Amanda Cady
(315) 624-5458
Lisa Orr
(315) 624-5757
Debra Domagal
(315) 624-5639
Other Stop Smoking Resources
- www.nysmokefree.com
- www.tobaccofreekids.org
- www.cdc.gov/tobacco
- www.talktoyourpatients.org
- www.cancer.gov
Our Members
- Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare
- Oneida Healthcare
- BRiDGES
Faxton Campus Map