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When Nancy DePalma found herself driving to the store over icy roads to buy cigarettes,聽or聽smoking butts she found in her ashtrays, she realized she had a problem. She was 鈥渟ick and tired鈥� of being held captive by her cigarette addiction and embarrassed when her patients and friends smelled cigarette smoke...

Glenn Hair started smoking when he was 12聽years old聽and smoked up to two packs聽of cigarettes聽every聽day. He tried to quit smoking numerous times but always found an excuse for why it was聽not聽the right time.聽He聽told himself he would quit later, but when he received his cancer diagnosis, he realized that,聽鈥淥ne of these...

Lauren Ryan (Chapel Hill Transit) started smoking socially in college and continued to smoke after graduation. Soon, Lauren married, and she and her husband planned to become pregnant. She quit smoking until her son was 17 months old.

Andy Colon decided to quit his tobacco addiction and went all out to create a healthier lifestyle for himself. He changed the way he ate, exercised more and, of course, stopped smoking. A friend told him about the Wellness@Work Tobacco Cessation program and Andy loved the idea of getting the...

Matt Lawrence came to the Wellness@Work Program dipping a can of tobacco every day, having made multiple 鈥減ractice attempts鈥� without sustaining abstinence. He hated the control that tobacco exerted over him. In his position as Deputy Fire Chief, he wanted to be a good role model and had become weary...

May 2, 2017 will mark two years of Susan Hinson鈥檚 quitting cigarettes, and is also the due date for her first grandchild! She feels excited about the baby鈥檚 arrival and also pleased that she doesn鈥檛 have to worry about her smoking affecting the child.

Erin Barringer, a nursing assistant in the Neurosciences Hospital, began smoking socially in 10th grade, and over the years she increased her smoking to one-half pack of cigarettes a day. She continued at this level until 2010 when she found out she was pregnant. She remained tobacco free through her...

Lana Simons, a Chapel Hill Transit employee, has been tobacco free for 2陆 years! She says it鈥檚 a 鈥渘icer way to live,鈥� not having cigarettes as part of her life, and she is proud of herself for doing it.

Howard Sutton, clinical support technician in the Department of Anesthesia, enrolled in the Tobacco Free Tar Heels program three years ago. Today he is tobacco free. When Howard Sutton enrolled in the Tobacco Free Tar Heels (TFTH) program three years ago, stress in his life seemed to be the biggest...

When nursing assistant Rebecca Langham enrolled in 黑料网 Health Care System鈥檚 Tobacco Free Tar Heels (TFTH) program, she had been smoking a pack of cigarettes daily since she was 16 years old. Today, thanks to TFTH and her own personal dedication, she's tobacco free.

Robb English, the Aquatics Supervisor in Chapel Hill鈥檚 Parks and Recreation Department, dipped almost a can of tobacco a day when he came to the Wellness at Work Tobacco Free Employee Program. As a teenager who played sports, Robb says that dipping tobacco was part of the culture, less overt...

Smoking on and off since I was thirteen, I鈥檇 tried every trick in the book to stop. Every attempt ended in failure, whether it was stopping cold turkey or gradually with the help of medication. I became, as the old joke goes, an expert on quitting. After all, I鈥檇 done...

After smoking for more than 40 years, with a brief three-year smoke-free period, Joe Manginelli, a Patient Business Associate at 黑料网 Hospitals Spine and Imaging Center, had his last cigarette on September 22, 2011. What made you decide to quit smoking? A few things made me quit. Mostly I did...

When Robert Jenkins came into 黑料网 Health Care System鈥檚 Tobacco Free Tar Heels (TFTH) program, he had been smoking since he was 15 years old (鈥渢oo long,鈥� he said). Like many teens, it was the 鈥渃ool factor鈥� that led him to smoke. He shared that he was so sick of...