Health, education and every day life habits

Smoking Cessation Centre (CAT - Le Centre d'abandon du tabagisme) 

Want to quit smoking? Take advantage of the services offered at the Smoking Cessation Centre. Specialists will advise you on the best ways to quit.

Smoking Cessation Centre of the West Island HSSC

By appointment
514 626-2572, ext. 4463

Support Groups

Join a group to help you to stop smoking and prevent relapses.

 

The better Living Without Smoking Centre

514 849-3804

 

Cancer Prevention Centre

Jewish General Hospital, Sir Mortimer B. Davis

514 340-8222, extension 3870

Other Resources

Quit Smoking Line

(toll-free) 1-866-527-7383

 

Quit Smoking Web site

www.jarrete.qc.ca

Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

The West Island HSSC offers an educational program to help asthma sufferers better understand and manage their condition. The program looks at asthma and its symptoms, its triggers and how to prevent them, medications, signs of deterioration, etc.

A similar program is offered to people suffering from COPD.

Lakeshore General Hospital
Individual sessions
By appointment with a doctor's referral
514-630-2225, extension 1799

Health Education Centre (HEdC)

The Health Education Centre of the West Island HSSC can help you adopt a healthy lifestyle: smoking cessation, eating better and doing physical activity. Talk to your doctor, a nurse or a health professional, or contact the centre directly by phone. 

For information:

West Island HSSC's Health Education Centre
514-626-2572, extension 4566

Diabetes

The West Island HSSC offers an education program for people with diabetes so that they can better understand their illness and find ways to control it. Topics include living day-to-day with diabetes, medications, complications, nutrition, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, etc.

Individual or group sessions available by appointment only.

CLSC de Pierrefonds: 514-626-4019
CLSC du Lac-Saint-Louis: 514-697-4110

Individual sessions only.

Lakeshore General Hospital: 514-630-2225, ext. 1821

With an emergency referral from your doctor.
(short term follow-up)

Hypertension

Do you suffer from hypertension? You can enroll in an education program to help improve your blood pressure, specifically by modifying your lifestyle habits. Group sessions.

West Island HSSC: 

514-626-4019 (Appointment Centre)

 

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The West Island HSSC is a member of the Montreal Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and CSSSs, affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

The CLSC de Pierrefonds and CLSC du Lac-Saint-Louis obtained the Baby-Friendly Initiative Certification, a program of the WHO and UNICEF.

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