College of Pharmacy at Amman Arab University Continues its Efforts to Achieve a Smoke-Free University
Under the directives of the President of Amman Arab University, Professor. Mohamad Al-Widyan, and in furtherance of the policies to combat the scourge of smoking pursued by Amman Arab University, and specifically the College of Pharmacy at the University, to achieve a “smoking-free campus,” anti-smoking officers from students of the College of Pharmacy visited the clinics of the health center/branch. Al-Jubaiha, accompanied by pharmacist Dr. Celine Abu Ghosh, with the aim of reviewing the work progress of the anti-smoking clinic, training anti-smoking officers on the best procedure in dealing with smokers and how to help them quit smoking through the designated smoking cessation clinic on the university campus and providing them with medical and behavioral advice, in addition to providing prescriptions for nicotine replacements and medications to help overcome smoking addiction.
In turn, Dean of the College of Pharmacy and the Head of the Supreme Anti-Smoking Committee at the University, Professor. Rana Abu Hweij, referred to the tireless efforts made by members of the Supreme Anti-Smoking Committee at the University to implement the Public Health Law through periodic awareness announcements on the university’s website and awareness lectures, in a desire to achieve a “university campus.” “Smoking-free” and providing the best healthy environment at the university, in addition to providing comprehensive support for those wishing to get rid of this harmful habit by working to provide integrated services in the smoking cessation clinic that include individual quit plans that include behavioral therapy (counseling and guidance), drug therapy, Provided by specialists in treating tobacco addiction, it will be available to any smoker who wishes to get help to quit smoking.
