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. 4463Support 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
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).


