Take the e-Chug and e-Toke Challenge!

The Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Program (ATOD) has set up two new features on their website called the e-Chug and e-Toke challenge.



The survey asks questions on your monthly use, spending habits, your perception of where you stand among college students and of certain myths involved in relating to alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco.

After completing the survey, the actual results of where you stand among college students are displayed based on the previous surveys. It also compares your personal alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco use to the amount of time and money spent on school, family, travel, and other important activities. The assessment tool also tells you the actual facts based on the myths asked earlier in survey.

Both of these features are free, confidential, and take only a few minutes to take.


Before you know it, you might be Mr. Wino here! Take the challenge and find out where you stand.


This guy can't be any better.

The Great American Smokeout

Nov. 15 marked The Great American Smokeout at Cal-State Long Beach. Sponsered by the American Cancer Society, its goal is to ask all smokers to quit smoking for the day. Meanwhile, it is also asking students to recognize the negative effects of smoking plus offering solutions to helping smokers quit the habit for good.

Starting at 10 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m., booths were set up on Friendship Walk handing out pamphlets and brochures providing cold hard facts, statistics, help, and programs provided by the campus. They also had a little fun providing nail files, chewing gum and other quit-kits associated with smoking.

Some booths also provided a free sandwhich if you signed a petition for a smoke-free campus. And other booths tried to mimic the "Truth" commercials with parodies of smoking such as students "dropping dead" and statistics yelled over a loud speaker.

Picket signs were also set up on Frienship Walk citing statistics such as "Smoking Accounts for 30% of all Cancer Deaths and 87% of all Lung Cancer Deaths." R.I.P. picket signs for George Harrison and Walt Disney due to lung cancer were also on the walkway.

The Great American Smokeout is a collaborative effort as Colleges Against Cancer, The Health Center and Health Science Student Association joined together.

Kicking the Habit for Good

For those Cal-State Long Beach students who want to quit smoking for good, there's good news. At the CSULB Health Services, The Alcohol Drugs and Other Drugs (ATOD) offer assistance in a program called "Quit Now."

In this program, students talk to a physician and together, estimate what the goals are. The program also offers students resources for quitting such as educational tools, a customized quitting plan, a free "quit smoking" 24-hour hotline, a fact sheet for smoking benefits, and more.

The program also insists that students visit the quit.net website. The website calculates how much moneya student spends on smoking, along with possible triggers that lead to smoking relapse.


Don't get the delirium smoker's cough like Bill Murray!

If you would like to quit smoking, contact the ATOD Program in room 268 of the Health Center, or call (562) 985-2520.