Free Program to Help Area Residents Stop Smoking

You’ve made some significant changes in your life. But quitting smoking is different. It is a tricky business. You may have used smoking to cope with all sorts of challenges. Smoking is woven into many different areas in your life. So, if you want to stop smoking, this 6 week program may help you.

Please join us at Parmenter for Quitting Time: Free Assistance & Support To Stop Smoking. This is a free six week education and support program to help you succeed. Quitting Time begins on March 16th from10-11am at the Parmenter offices located at 266 Cochituate Road (RT 27), Wayland. Please, reserve your spot by calling 508-358-3000 extension 450.

Smoking is a major health hazard. An exhaustive body of evidence that includes hundreds of epidemiological, experimental, pathological, and clinical studies to demonstrate that smoking increases the smoker’s risk of death and illness from a wide variety of diseases. The Surgeon General has called cigarette smoking “the chief preventable cause of death in our society.” The National Institute on Drug Abuse has estimated that in the U.S. alone, smoking is responsible for approximately 350,000 deaths per year.

Parmenter has been caring for local residents since 1954, and we want to help you beat the smoking addiction. Our Public Health nurse, Linda Sullivan R.N., M.A., is a Certified Addiction Counselor. In addition, she has an M.A. in Counseling Psychology. This program requires your full 6 week commitment. 
 
Parmenter Community Health Care is an independent, non-profit health care agency providing home health, hospice and community services for the metrowest area since 1954. Located in Wayland, MA, Parmenter’s award-winning clinical care team enables people of all ages, and with a wide range of health care needs, to remain at home during illness, recuperation, rehabilitation and to enable the dying and their families to face the end of life with comfort and dignity. Parmenter provides visiting nurse home care and palliative care, along with hospice at home in 26 local communities. Parmenter also provides a beautiful, unique, 10 bedroom Hospice Residence located in Wayland. Visit us at www.parmenter.org for full list of services offered or call 508 358 3000 for more information or assistance.
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