MSU Goes Tobacco-Free and Offers Breathe Easy: Tobacco and Nicotine Cessation Program

Michigan State University became a tobacco-free campus on August 15, 2016. To help faculty and staff with this transition, the Breathe Easy: Tobacco and Nicotine Cessation Program is being offered through a collaboration between Human Resources, Olin Student Health Services and the Office of the University Physician Health4U Program. 

There will be an information session about the program on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. in room 247 of the Olin Health Center. Attending the session does not obligate an attendee to enroll in the program. It does provide information to assist an attendee’s decision of whether this cessation program is a viable personal choice. Space at the Breathe Easy information session is limited, therefore interested faculty and staff should register to attend.  

The Breathe Easy program encompasses a 17-hour total time commitment over the course of the 15-month program commitment. For the remainder of 2016, employees will not be required to use their own time, so long as they are compliant with attendance at the meetings. Supervisors are expected to allow full release time to encourage employee participation in the Breathe Easy program. 

To register for the information session, faculty, staff and their adult benefits-eligible family members should call 517-353-2596 or send an email to Health4U@msu.edu by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, September 20, 2016.  

Detailed information about the program is available on the web at http://health4u.msu.edu/articles/2016-ready-to-quit-breathe-easy .

This program is the result of a partnership between Human Resources, Olin Student Health Services and the Office of the University Physician Health4U Program. Program participants quit tobacco and nicotine products with the help of Chantix®, Zyban® (Buproprion), nicotine replacement therapy or no medication at all.