At Mercy Health Partners, you’ll find the clinical experience and technology you’d expect from a leading-edge healthcare provider. But you’ll also experience something else: compassionate and individualized attention. We call it the Mercy Circle of Caring and you’ll experience it at every point of interaction from registration to rehabilitation.
Watch the videos on the right of Dr. McHenry and Dr. Williams for more information about how you can quit smoking for life.
Mercy Health Partners is a leading-edge healthcare provider that features five award-winning hospitals, board-certified physicians, as well as a wide variety of programs and services, including Mercy Medical Associates that offer guidance on breaking the smoking habit.
Mercy Medical Associates have designed a stop smoking program that provides you with education and support to guide you through this challenging process. For help with quitting, register for a free informational session:
Location: Minning Lecture Hall Mercy Hospital Clermont 3000 Hospital Drive, Batavia
The lectures are FREE and registration is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. To register, please call 937-378-2526.
You Should Quit
The Great American SmokeOut reminds everyone about the dangers and health risks of smoking. It is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. resulting in one in five deaths each year. Not only is it linked to lung cancer, but 40% of all cancers in the U.S. Smoking affects the entire body, increasing your risk of developing various cancers, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, and several other health issues such as depression, stomach ulcers, infertility, osteoporosis, insomnia, cosmetic changes, as well as impacting pregnancies.
You CAN Quit
Smoking is habit forming and addictive, but there are 50 million ex-smokers in the U.S., which means that if they can do it, you can too. The key to quitting is addressing both sides of the desire to smoke, which is 50% habit and 50% addiction.
The “Quitting for Life: Stop Smoking Program” from Mercy Medical Associates can help increase your chances of successfully quitting by providing you with the right information and physicians you need. When you use a resource to quit, you’re 3.5 times more likely to succeed.
To break the habit:
You’ll have more money, you’ll live a longer healthier life, and people around you will be healthier, too.
Use your resources! Discuss your medication options with your physician and get the proper tools to quit. Prepare yourself and stick to your quit day. And remember, if you tried to quit before, you only increase your chances of success when you try again. You CAN quit.
To find out more about how Mercy can help provide you with the right resources to quit smoking, visit e-mercy.com and call the Mercy Medical Associates – Georgetown Family Medicine physicians, or join Mercy’s free seminar on November 11th or January 13th.
