Smoking Cessation Clinic

Need Help to Quit Smoking?

Established in 1997 to help patients, faculty, employees, and students to stop smoking, the clinic offers patients an individualized consultation. The consultation includes:

developing a smoking cessation quit plan,
discussing the most beneficial smoking cessation medication for the individual based upon smoking history, triggers, and other diseases and medications,
and preventing relapse.

Initial Visit

The goals of the initial visit are to check:

the smoker’s carbon monoxide level
Fagerstrom test score
blood pressure and weight

Barriers such as weight gain and stress are identified and discussed.

Follow-up Visit

After an intensive initial visit, follow-up appointments are determined based upon the readiness of the individual to stop smoking.

Appointment Information

The Smoking Cessation Clinic is located at
UIC Nutrition and Wellness Center
1801 W. Taylor St., 1st floor (1-C)
University of Illinois at Chicago

Individual appointments available on Monday and Wednesday
9:00 AM- 12:00 PM. Call (312) 996-1682 for appointments or 312-996-6110 extension 8 for more information.

Our Staff

Dr. Lori Wilken and Dr. Susan Winkler, Pharm.D. BCPS are the smoking cessation clinicians and pharmacists that received training from the American Cancer Society and the Mayo Clinic. They have completed clinical research with the use of Zyban® in smoking cessation, presented posters about the clinic at several national meetings and written a chapter on smoking cessation for pharmacy students.