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Support to Stop Smoking/Vaping

Free HSE Stop Smoking/Vaping Courses on Campus

Quitting smoking/vaping is the best thing you can do for your health and the environment.  Have you tried quitting as part of a group?

The HSE's Julieann Cullen runs regular, free stop smoking and vaping groups in College Health as part of the Healthy Trinity initative.

A typical course involves:

Date: Starts in January or October
Time: 1.00-1.50 for approx. 6 weeks
Location: An Mheitheal Meeting Room, College Health, Printing House Square
For more information and to register: Email health.promotion@tcd.ie , speak to reception in the Health Centre or phone 01 8961591.

The courses cover topics like readiness to stop, dealing with cravings, the pros and cons of stopping and using patches or nicotine replacement therapies. The HSE provides free Nicotine Replacement Therapy (e.g. nicotine patches, lozenges etc) to people quitting smoking.

You can find the local Quit group and clinics throughout Ireland here, the HSE Quit website is a great resource, as is Quitline telephone service (1800 201 203) and this HSE guidance on vaping and e-cigarettes.

Trinity is a tobacco free campus and vaping is not permitted indoors. Trinity would very much welcome strong governmental restrictions to ban vaping as a means of supporting healthy people on a healthy planet.