Navy: ‘Smoking Lamp is Out’

This month, the Navy Environmental Health Center (NEHC) is launching the “Smoking Lamp is Out,” a new Web-based health promotion tool to help tobacco users stop smoking. Smoking Lamp is Out is a user-friendly, Web-based program offering proven strategies and techniques for tobacco users preparing to quit. Additionally, it allows users to design a tobacco cessation program based upon their own time-table and schedules. According to Dr. Mark Long, Tobacco Cessation Program specialist with NEHC, the program is a self-study and self-paced Web product geared to help the individual stop smoking. It may be used by active-duty or Reserve Sailors, Marines, family members and retirees as their primary means to quit tobacco. The program also may be used in combination with individual counseling or with a formal tobacco cessation program. For more information, visit the NEHC Web site at www-nehc.med.navy.mil.