National health observances
What’s the Great American Smokeout?
Each year since 1977, millions of smokers across the nation join in the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout. Their challenge is to stop smoking for a 24-hour period.
Why join?
It may help you decide to quit for good. If you can quit smoking and quit using tobacco products for one day, why not do it tomorrow too. All it takes is one more day.
What’s wrong with smoking?
If you didn't know it yet, smoking kills half a million people each year and is blamed for one third of all cancers. If you smoke, you’re twice as likely to have a heart attack.
How BCN helps
Blue Care Network has a smoke-free workplace to protect its employees and the general public from exposure to secondhand smoke.
BCN also offers Quit the Nic, an effective smoking cessation program to help you quit.
If you have prescription drug coverage and enroll in Quit the Nic, you are covered for over-the-counter and prescription nicotine replacement products for three months.
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