{"id":248,"date":"2015-06-04T15:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T15:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egreen.net\/?page_id=248"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T15:47:55","slug":"first-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/egreen.net\/clinical-hypnosis\/in-the-news\/about-us\/port-ocall\/first-5\/","title":{"rendered":"First 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chamber member is awarded for community service<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pe06557_.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-249\" src=\"http:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pe06557_.gif\" alt=\"pe06557_\" width=\"177\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At their fifth annual Evening of Thanks awards dinner, First 5 San Joaquin Children &amp; Families Commission recently recognized Stockton\u2019s Evergreen Professional Hypnotherapy \u201cfor their innovative efforts in promoting the importance of tobacco-free environments throughout the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Into its fifth successful year offering free smoking cessation countywide to those who qualify, Evergreen is credited with impacting the lives of more than 100 children from in utero to age five years.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the First 5 program, which is structured to protect small children from the dangers of secondhand smoke, Evergreen\u2019s Founder and Director Dr. Ginny Lucas, selected as Stockton\u2019s 2003-2004 Small Business Person of the Year, has made it public policy since 1992 to provide free smoking cessation for all teens under 18 who wish to use clinical hypnosis to break the habit.<\/p>\n<p>As reported 10\/27 on TV news, in a recent study conducted by the North Shore Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital in Salem, Mass., clinical hypnosis met with greater success than nicotine replacement products. Surprisingly to many, even the group that quit \u201ccold turkey\u201d came in second to professional hypnosis &#8212; also scoring higher than nicotine pills, patches, gum, lozenges and inhalers.<\/p>\n<p>Details regarding Evergreen\u2019s free services for smokers can be found at www.egreen.net\/smoking\/first-5, or by calling (209)472-0722.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chamber member is awarded for community service At their fifth annual Evening of Thanks awards dinner, First 5 San Joaquin Children &amp; Families Commission recently recognized Stockton\u2019s Evergreen Professional Hypnotherapy \u201cfor their innovative efforts in promoting the importance of tobacco-free environments throughout the community.\u201d Into its fifth successful year offering free smoking cessation countywide to&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/egreen.net\/clinical-hypnosis\/in-the-news\/about-us\/port-ocall\/first-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":239,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egreen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}