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Article: New Jersey program help students quit tobacco habit
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- Filipino Reporter
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- November 23, 2000
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Filipino Reporter
11-23-2000
New Jersey program help students quit tobacco habit
Gov. Christie Whitman and Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS)
Commissioner Christine Grant unveiled Monday two free services to help
smokers kick the tobacco habit - New Jersey Quit line, a telephone hotline,
and New Jersey Quitnet(SM), an innovative online smoking cessation program.
At a press event at Rutger University's Newark campus the governor also
issued a challenge to college-age smokers to "quit butts" by the Great
American Smokeout on Nov. 16. Five students who took part in a two-week
pre-launch trial of New Jersey's Quitnet and Quitline are lending
encouragement to fellow students by sharing ...