These are seven staff and visitors who have decided to quit smoking in response to Roswell Park's Smoke Free Campus change.  You can read their whole story in this PDF file.

Maegan Capitano
Roswell Park graduate student Maegan Capitano is at the beginning of her career in science. She is starting her graduate program in immunology, initiating her work in translational research in blood and marrow transplantation (BMT), and focusing on new adult responsibilities.

Jeanne George
As a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologist, Jeanne George's job is to help patients at Roswell Park remain comfortable as they undergo diagnostic testing for cancer.

With the announcement that the Roswell Park campus would be smoke-free, Jeanne decided now was the time to stop." Jeanne has not smoked a single cigarette for more than three months
 
Debra Headley
Debra works in the Development office at Roswell Park as a gift entry processor. "I was very aware of smoking cigarettes at a cancer hospital. It just didn't seem right."

Vicki Kowalewski
Vicki, a pharmacy technician at Roswell Park, smoked about one pack a day - on and off for years when she decided to quit in February 2006. When Vicki decided to stop smoking, she called the New York State Smoker's Quitline where she received counseling from a specialist as well as nicotine replacement products. "I couldn't have stopped on my own. This organization really made a difference in my ability to stop for good."

Sue Wagner Rennie
Sue says it was the moment when time stopped.  A suspected heart attack motivated Sue to give up cigarettes forever. Now a strong anti-smoking advocate, Sue believes a smoke-free Roswell Park campus is the right policy at the right time.

Daniel Schuder
When his doctors discovered suspicious lesions on his lung through CT scans, this long time smoker says he decided to have  video assisted thoracic surgery or VATS.

Dan's lesions turned out not to be cancer but doctors did remove a section of his lung severely damaged from years of smoking.

Darwin (Moe) Thomas
You may have heard the old adage: If at first you don't succeed - try, try again. Moe firmly believes in that advice.
He has quit smoking several times - which is typical of most smokers.  "I did it for my granddaughter. Her favorite name for me is Poppa and she wants to know why her Poppa is smoking again. This six-year-old is really pushing me to quit. So now I am using the patch to help me stop smoking for good," Moe explains.