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Nonâ€"smoking week activities® Waterloo Region will be marking National Nonâ€"smoking Week, Jan. 17â€"23, with the following activities: e Tâ€"shirts will be presented to the Â¥f 1 first two babies born on Weedless %f Wednesday, Jan. 23, at each of the three local hospitals. Tâ€"shirts, bearing a slogan that gromotes no smoking, will be distributed Thursday, an. 24. e Members of the Free and Easy Smoke Free Group at Waterloo collegiate will decorate a pillar in the school‘s foyer to resemble a cigarette. Students will be encouraged to commit themselves to be nonâ€"smokers f(;.;‘t’fié-vl:é;k:'tfiéi';;ifll'bé games and announcements promoting National Nonâ€"smoking Week in the school and Tâ€"shirts will be awarded to participants. _ _ Help is at hand No one says it‘s easy e Dr. Beth Huntingdon of the Waterloo Regional Health Unit will appear on CKCO‘s Romper Room Wednesday, Jan. 23 to discuss the dangers of smoking with preâ€"schoolers and encourage them not to take up the habit. e Displays promoting no smoking or smoking cessation will be set up in the Waterloo, Kitchener a! Cambridge public libraries and Kâ€"W, St. Mary‘s and Cambrid‘ge Memorial hospitals. Pat Arbuckle Chronicle Staff With the beginning of a new year comes resolutions, but for many, that pledge to kick the smoking habit can be the toughest to keep. This year, help is close at hand as the University of Waterloo Campus Health Promotion office againgoffers Kick it, a sixâ€"week smoking cessation program, scheduled to begin Jan. 30. Described as a behaviorâ€"change proâ€" gram, Kick it ‘"aims to determine why (people) smoke, offer practical alternaâ€" tives to smoking and prepare them to quit," explained Tom Geoghegan, a fitness consultant with the Campus Health Promotion office. Those who always have a cigarette with their morning coffee, for example, may be asked to switch to tea, explained Howell, who stressed that just as the reasons for smoking differ with every â€"person, so do the solutions to the probâ€" lem. When they reach the third week of the program, participants are expected to give up their cigarettes. The remainder of the sixâ€"week course is spent reinforeâ€" ing the new habits and making longâ€"term plans to help each person remain a nonâ€"smoker. Individual counselling is also available, if needed. s Other smoking cessation programs available in the Waterloo Region include a selfâ€"help course offered by the Waterloo Regional Lung Association. At a cost of $5, those wishing to give the program a try can purchase a set of two manuals, entitled Freedom from Smoking in 20 Days and A Lifetime of Freedom from Smoking, from the Lung Association by calling 886â€"8100. The manuals are availâ€" able anytime during the year. in nonsmokers,. 101 for amokers. iven ing to amounts smoked: these were 52 per 100,000 for smokers of fewer than is cigareties a day, 106 for 15 to 24 cigarettes ©_ and 224 for those who smaked more than 25 . gamble becomes. If you smoke a pack a day, according to the results gathered in a British stidy, you are more than 20 times as . Hikely to get lung cancer than if you didn‘t