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Breathe with Pride Coalition Meeting: Please join our coalition meeting on February 9, 2022.  Let us know you'll be joining us.
MD Anderson's Project TEACH
 Project TEACH (Tobacco Education and Cessation in the Health System) is a tele-mentoring program facilitated by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The aim of this program is to provide tobacco education, consulting and cessation strategies to clinical providers through the Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) model. Project TEACH is available for all health care providers seeking to provide cessation treatment for tobacco and nicotine products. For the scheduled sessions visit MD Anderson website. Continuing education credits are available for those who attend.

FEBRUARY EVENTS AND RESOURCES

  • Queer Tips and Affirmations for Quitting: "Smoking decreases the effectiveness of gender-affirming hormones...and don't we all want to be amazing?" National LGBT Cancer Network is helping the Queer community reimagine a smoke-free future.
  • Lesbian Health Initiative's February Workshops:
  • AAMA's Drive-thru community mobile food distribution: February 15, 2022; 204 Clifton St. Houston, 77011 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
  • Allergy Asthma Network host Living Well with Asthma Virtual Event Series: Stress Relief and Meditation for Better Breathing  Watch

What is Menthol?

Menthol is a popular additive in tobacco products since it lessens the harsh flavor and intensity of cigarettes and/or vaping. Learn why this can make quitting even harder. 

New vaping risk

We know vaping has numerous negative impacts on lungs, but did you know it could increase risk of impotency for men? Read more. 

What does quitting feel like?

Recognizing the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal can help you cope. Learn More about what you could feel as your body rids itself of the toxins in tobacco products.
 “While You Were Streaming: Nicotine on Demand,” Truth's Initiative's fourth annual report looking at tobacco imagery in entertainment, finds that young people watched more video content than ever before in 2020 with smoking and vaping imagery lit up their screens.  Read more

OUR MISSION

Breathe with Pride Houston Tobacco Prevention and Control Initiative works to reduce tobacco use among populations with the highest burden of tobacco-related health disparities by engaging in scholarly research, providing leadership at the city level to support smoke-free policies, and working in partnership to bring community-based interventions.  Check us out
Breathe with Pride is a Houston Health Department (HHD) program. The department works in partnership with the community to promote and protect the health and social well-being of Houstonians and the environment in which they live. HHD is a full-service health department that not only performs all core functions of a Public Health Department but also many enhanced functions including initiatives to address health inequities. HHD services benefit all Houston residents but the department also takes additional steps to support those most in need, such as low-income mothers and children, the elderly, and minority populations. Most HHD functions serve the 2.3 million residents of the City of Houston but the scope and impact extend into Harris County’s population of 4.7 million people through the department’s Area Aging on Aging, Bureau of Youth and Adolescent Health, Project Saving Smiles, See to Succeed, immunization strategies, syndromic surveillance and HIV-STD surveillance. HHD’s laboratory also services a 17-county region. Learn more at HoustonHealth.org.






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