Vanderbilt Dayani Center for Health & Wellness

Smoking Cessation represents the single most important step that smokers can take to enhance the length and quality of their lives. Claims data in the insurance industry clearly show that people who smoke have both substantially higher frequencies and dollar amounts of health care claims than people who don't smoke. (For example, smokers have 25% more hospital days and 29% more claims in excess of $5,000.) Accordingly, this intervention program is the single most requested intervention program we provide to corporate clients. This workshop is staffed by our certified Gerontological Nurse Practitioner. 

Workshop includes:
 

• Provider comes to off-site location
• Medications prescribed as appropriate
• 8 weeks for 60 minute sessions
• Positive, multidisciplinary approach
• Smoker's carbon monoxide levels measured
• Follow-up session for maintenance
• Alternative behaviors explored
• Assessments: nicotine dependency, readiness to quit, and reasons to smoke 
 

Facts About Smoking

• What is tobacco?
• What is in tobacco?
• Uses of tobacco
• Why do people smoke?
• Benefits of quitting
• How do I quit?