SARASOTA, FL – WHO/WHAT: In observance of the New Year, Tobacco Free Florida and the Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County (DOH-Sarasota) Tobacco Prevention Program encourage tobacco users to use the start of 2017 to make a quit plan and stay quit.

Tobacco Free Florida’s Quit Your Way program offers Floridians free and proven-effective resources to help them quit smoking.

Tobacco users who utilize Tobacco Free Florida’s services are five to 11 times more likely to quit than those who try on their own. Over the past 10 years, Tobacco Free Florida has directly helped more than 159,000 Floridians quit tobacco.

WHY:  DOH-Sarasota’s Tobacco Prevention Program and Tobacco Free Florida educate Floridians on the various ways to quit and support them through the process – when considering resolutions and year-round. For more information about Quit Your Way, please visitwww.tobaccofreeflorida.com/quityourway.

WHEN: Now-February

About the Florida Department of Health

The department, nationally accredited by the Public Health Accreditation Board, works to protect, promote and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county and community efforts. Follow us on Twitter at @HealthyFla and on Facebook. For more information about the Florida Department of Health, please visit www.FloridaHealth.gov.

   
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DOH-Sarasota Media Contact:
Dianne Shipley, 941-861-2852;
cell 941-302-1058;
DOHSarasotaNews@FLHealth.gov,
Website: www.sarasotahealth.org