WTHR |Sheriff's Dept. employees get help to kick the habit
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Marion County Sheriff Frank AndersonMarion County - Smokers who work for the Marion County sheriff and want to quit are getting serious help to do just that.
Sheriff Frank Anderson is teaming up with Clarian Health officials for a quit tobacco campaign. The program offers free assistance to smokers looking to quit.
The National Institute for Fitness and Sport is also part of the program offering discount gym memberships. Sheriff Anderson hopes fewer smokers will mean fewer sick days and smoke related absences, but more importantly healthier lives.
Anderson himself quit smoking in August 1977 and tried to convince one of his brothers to kick the habit.
"He wouldn't quit smoking and we buried him about five years ago after three heart attacks, two strokes, a quadruple bypass and other sufferings," said Anderson.
The voluntary quit tobacco program is free to all Marion County Sheriff's Department employees.
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