On Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 the Nossmo Health Care Association will provide a kick-off seminar to introduce Pro-Change’s Smoking Cessation program in Japan. Speakers at the event will include Dr. Shaw Watanabe, President of Nossmo Health Care Association; Dr. Mori from the Japanese Health and Welfare Ministry, and Dr. Miyazaki from the Japanese Non-Smoking Organization.
Nossmo Health Care Association will provide onsite smoking cessation groups for employees throughout Tokyo. Pro-Change’s stage-matched smoking cessation print manuals will be the core curriculum provided. Dr. Watanabe and his staff visited Pro-Change in December 2009 to plan out strategies for licensing and using the smoking cessation program.
Eri Kubota, of the Nossmo Health Care Association, stated “that the companies in their membership association will now have the Pro-Change program available for the 30-40% of employees who are smokers. Healthcare professionals will be onsite once a month to lead the groups.”