LEWISTON —  The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing and Healthy Androscoggin are offering Quit for Life, a free five-session workshop designed to teach tobacco users to become tobacco-free.

Quit for Life will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays, Sept. 11 through Oct. 9, at the Dempsey Center, 29 Lowell 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 Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing, will discuss coping strategies, 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 (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. Preregister by calling Healthy Androscoggin at 795-5990.