The smoke-free program

The group course for anyone who wants to stop smoking with professional help.

"I've been very lucky in life, but the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me was being freed from this nightmare, this slavery to systematically destroying my own body for the rest of my life and having to pay dearly for the privilege." (Allen Carr)

The smoke-free program

Instructor

Dr. med. Meike Jungen

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Dates, costs and venue

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Background

Initiatives, partners, organization and downloads

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Registration & Contact

Your binding participation in the program

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Dr. med. Meike Jungen

  • Course leader for certified tobacco cessation
  • Specialist in internal medicine and pneumology at the Voss-Dirks specialist pulmonary practice in Hanover
  • Most of her medical career to date has taken place in the Clinical Department of Pneumology at Hannover Medical School
  • Training focused on the area of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) caused by long-term cigarette consumption

Dates

The course comprises a free information event, three group meetings and two individual telephone appointments.

Here you will find the dates for the next face-to-face course: The next course is expected to take place in January 2026.

  • Information event: Friday, info to follow | 3 - 4 p.m.
  • Group meeting I: Friday, info to follow | 3 - 6 p.m.
  • Group meeting II: Friday, info to follow | 3 - 6 p.m.
  • Group meeting III: Friday, info to follow | 3 - 6 p.m.

The information event is non-binding and free of charge and can be attended independently of the paid group course.

In any case, participation is only possible with registration.

To the registration form

Course structure

The course takes place once a week.

It includes three group meetings of 180 minutes each and two individual telephone appointments of 10 minutes each.

The maximum group size is 14 participants, so that there is enough time for each group member.

I. Group meeting - background to smoking. Why do you smoke and why do you want to live a smoke-free life? In the group we strengthen your motivation for a smoke-free life.

II. group meeting - Your decision for a smoke-free life. You will be optimally prepared for quitting smoking. We develop strategies for the first smoke-free days and strategies to prevent relapse. And support you individually after quitting smoking with a first telephone appointment.

III. group meeting - consolidation of the stop smoking program. We support you to stay smoke-free and enjoy your smoke-free life. A second telephone appointment takes place to prevent relapse.

Costs

  • The participation fee is 350 € (incl. course manual)
  • The course fees must be paid after the information event, but before the course begins.

As a rule, the course fees are reimbursed retrospectively and pro rata by the statutory health insurance companies after participation has been confirmed. Please contact your health insurance company directly. The course concept corresponds to the "Guidelines for Prevention" in accordance with the leading associations of the health insurance funds on Paragraph 20 Section 1 SGB V.

Venue

All events take place on the MHH premises. The rooms will be allocated by the MHH according to the vacancies and will be communicated to our participants accordingly by e-mail shortly before the event.

 

Application & Contact

We are delighted that you are interested in our smoke-free program.

To register for the information event, please send an e-mail to

Your smoke-free team

 

Telephone availability

Tuesday - Friday from 09.00 to 15.00 under the telephone number:

  • 0511 532-5600

 

Postal address

Hannover Medical School

The smoke-free program

BREATH, German Center for Lung Research - OE 6876

Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hanover


Motivation for "The Smoke-Free Program"

Today, smokers can be offered modern and successful support to quit smoking in the long term and live a happy, smoke-free life.

"The Smoke-Free Program" is an initiative of IFT-Gesundheitsförderung Gesellschaft mbH, developed in cooperation with the Institute for Therapy Research (IFT) and is funded by the Federal Centre for Health Education(BZgA).

This program:

  • is certified,
  • is professionally supported,
  • is continuously further developed,
  • evaluated annually and
  • individually tailored.

Our "Smoke-free Program" was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Sparkasse Hildesheim Goslar Peine Donors' Association and Hannover Medical School(MHH).

Organizational support is provided by BREATH - site of the German Center for Lung Research(DZL)


Downloads

Flyers and posters can also be sent in print format if you specify the quantity and address.

Please send us your e-mail to: rauchfrei@mh-hannover.de