Archives for November, 2009.

By Susan Thurston, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Friday, November 20, 2009

Doctors at a cancer treatment center in Pinellas Park want smokers to quit cold turkey in time for turkey day.

In recognition of National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, WellSpring Oncology is helping smokers kick the habit through a new campaign, Bucks for Butts.

Throughout November, any smoker who brings an opened pack of cigarettes to the cancer center, 6600 66th St. N, will get a $5 Publix gift card and sign an “I Quit” petition. WellSpring will contact participants about their progress and, at the end of the month, those who haven’t started smoking again will be entered in a drawing for a to-be-announced prize. More

Dr. Andrea Henley-Seymour shares tips on preventing and treating sports injuries

(Pinellas Park, Fla.) – No matter what sport you play – football, baseball, golf or even bowling, there is a chance you sprained, twisted, stretched, pulled or injured yourself in some way. With Fall sports activities underway, Dr. Andrea Henley-Seymour, Pain Specialist, shares tips on preventing and treating those “sports falls” and injuries. More

Smokers can swap cigarettes for sandwiches during Smokeout
By MARY SHEDDEN | The Tampa Tribune
Published: November 17, 2009

TAMPA – Going cold turkey has new meaning.

Thursday is the 34th annual Great American Smokeout Challenge, which challenges smokers to go a day without tobacco and perhaps quit the habit altogether. Schools, businesses and health advocacy groups across the country have planned activities hoping to make the day as smoke free as possible.

Hillsborough County’s Tobacco Free Partnership and local Honey Baked Ham Co. stores are challenging local residents to turn in their cigarettes in exchange for a coupon good for a “cold turkey” sandwich. They’ll also get a survival kit with smoking cessation educational information. More

BUCKS FOR BUTTS
Cash-in for quitting your bad habit this month during National Lung Cancer Awareness Month at WellSpring Oncology Cancer Center

Pinellas Park, Fla. (November 9, 2009) – It’s National Lung Cancer Awareness Month and a local group of physicians from the WellSpring Oncology Cancer Center are taking an aggressive stand to help smokers kick the bad habit with the “Bucks for Butts” campaign this November. Every smoker who relinquishes his/her box of opened cigarettes gets a $5 gift card* to Publix. They then take a petition, in the form of their signature testimony on the Bucks for Butts – “I Quit” poster board, which sits next to an oversized “Butts Basket” for disposal. (*For the first fifty participants) More

Hillsborough County Medical Association to distribute FREE H1N1 Vaccines to member physicians and Staff

Tampa, Fla. (November 4, 2009) – Local physicians and their staff will have the opportunity to receive the H1N1 Influenza vaccine next week. The Hillsborough County Medical Association (HCMA), in partnership with the Hillsborough County Health Department, is offering free vaccinations for HCMA members and their office personnel from noon to 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 12 at the HCMA office at 606 S. Boulevard, Tampa, 33606. More

Giving back to our local educators with the Back-in-School Extreme Makeover Contest
Local businesses partner to show appreciation to local teachers

October 9, 2009 (Palm Harbor, Fla.) – In an effort to show appreciation to our local educators, businesses around Pinellas and Hillsborough counties have contributed to create the, “Back-in-School Extreme Makeover Contest.” Local teachers from Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough will get the opportunity to have a fresh, rejuvenated look and feel to jump-start the semester. Businesses have donated services and products to pamper one lucky teacher this year.

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