Norton Healthcare can help you quit smoking in the new year

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Looking into quitting smoking? This is the year you can quit and create a "New You in the New Year!"

WDRB's Keith Kaiser joins some experts at Norton Healthcare for some advice.

Within 20 minutes after you stop using tobacco, your body begins a series of changes that continue for years.

Tobacco cessation classes and medication have helped millions of tobacco users around the nation kick the habit.

Norton Healthcare offers no-cost group classes to help adults 18-years-and-older achieve a healthy, tobacco-free lifestyle.

Classes follow the "American Lung Association Freedom From Smoking" program, proven to be effective for hundreds of thousands of tobacco users.

Classes address cigarettes, cigars, vaping, and other forms of tobacco.

The classes typically meet at locations throughout Louisville and southern Indiana, and are also offered virtually.

Classes meet for eight 60- to 90-minute sessions over seven weeks.

The first session begins Thursday, Jan. 9.

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