The San Jose City College Student Health Services Program received an approval totaling $100,000 over the next two years from the Pfizer Medical Education Group of New York.<\/p>\n
The grant is approved for the program Trash The Ash, a smoking cessation program service to be offered in 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout 200 people have participated since the program started,\u201d said smoking cessation program director for SJCC and Evergreen Valley College Janet Reid, R.N.<\/p>\n
The smoking cessation program began in 2003 at SJCC with the help of a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.<\/p>\n
The current program, supported by a grant from Breathe California, offers weekly counseling sessions and a wide range of products, including lozenges, gum and toothpicks, to help with oral fixation.<\/p>\n
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the American College of Chest Physicians were some of the other applicants for the grant; SJCC was the only college in the country that was approved.<\/p>\n
Currently, Reid gives her participants her personal phone number for people to use when they are in need of some counseling off campus.<\/p>\n
The new grant will be used to provide more on-campus hours for Reid to work with participants and help improve the awareness of the program in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be reaching out to some of the other programs, such as EMT, nursing and cosmetology, to help spread the word,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n
The grant will also assist in developing and passing a district-wide no-smoking policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am really excited,\u201d Reid said. \u201cHelping people quit is something very important to me because of the damage it does, and the damage it does to surrounding people.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information, call Student Health Services at 408- 288-3724.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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