LEWISTON — The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing and Healthy Androscoggin will offer Quit for Life, a four-session workshop designed to teach tobacco users to become tobacco-free. The workshop is free and takes place Mondays, April 29 through May 20 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Community Concepts, 240 Bates St.

Quit for Life includes instruction on preparing to quit, getting through the first few days, avoiding triggers to start smoking again and staying tobacco-free forever.

Emily Dooling, tobacco coordinator at Healthy Androscoggin, and Maureen Higgins, cancer health outreach educator at The Dempsey Center, will discuss coping strategies, information on overcoming addiction, preventing relapse, managing stress, exercise and nutrition. To address the addictive nature of nicotine, the program includes an explanation on the benefits of nicotine replacement such as patch, gum, nasal spray and inhaler, and non-nicotine medications, how they are used and potential side effects.

The group setting provides support through sharing proven methods and the assurance that no one is going through it alone.

Space is limited. Pre-register by calling Healthy Androscoggin at 795-5990.