Thinking of quitting smoking?
The Kenosha County Tobacco Free Coalition and Racine on the Lake Tobacco Free Coalition are offering the free program, “Helping People Quit: Why Treating Tobacco Dependence Should Be Part of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programs,” from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Madrigrano Conference Center at Gateway Technical College, 3520 30th Ave., Kenosha.
Discussion will focus on what new studies have shown about the impact of tobacco use within the mental health community. The guest speaker is Dr. Eric Heiligenstein, clinical director of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Health Services. He specializes in the overlap between tobacco use and psychiatric disorders.