University of Baltimore

The UB Smoke Free coalition is important because it brings awareness to students regarding their campus and surrounding communities while promoting a healthy life style. The coalition provides passionate students the platform to reach the community by utilizing creative, engaging, and thought-provoking programming. 

Within the community, UB Smoke Free has collaborated with Maryland General Hospital; on campus, we have collaborated with the Undergraduate Student Senate, UB Wellness Center, Student Events Board, Omicron Delta Kappa, Graduate Student Senate, Real Estate Law and the UB Leadership Program on campus. 

Our mission is to engage the UB community with programming that supports healthy lifestyle choices regarding the use of tobacco products.  We have thirteen coalition members representing the College of Liberal Arts, The School of Business, and the Law School. Join us.  It's fun!

UB Smoke Free: 2007 Fall Program Summary  

• Tuesday September 18, 2007- Student Life Expo STOPS give-a-ways
• Thursday September 20, 2007- UB S.T.O.P.S Study Circle

64 first-year students participated in an interactive game, "Have Money to Burn?" comparing the money spent on cigarettes and how that money could have been used to purchase various items from the every day to the extraordinary. 

• Thursday October 11, 2007- USS Block Party STOPS give-a-ways  
• Tuesday October 30, 2007- Outreach Table and Candy Giveaway

"You are the Walking Dead" Halloween theme.  Promoting the cessation of using tobacco products, STOPS student coalition, and 1-800-QUIT-NOW

• Thursday November 1, 2007-

"Facts and Freebies" Outreach promoting the STOPS student coalition, and 1-800-QUIT-NOW

• Thursday November 8, 2007- UB STOPS Study Circle-

21 first-year students participated in "Aimed at you!" An interactive collage activity regarding the facts about the cigarette companies targeting students with advertisement.  The students made collages that will be sent to cigarette companies, via photographs.  The collages were also placed around campus through December 8, 2007 and will be utilized in spring marketing.

• Thursday November 16, 2007-Great American Smoke Out-

Gave away 200 "cold turkey subs" in exchange for filling out surveys and cigarettes.  Over 230 UB students, faculty, and staff participated.  152 surveys were completed regarding current UB smoking policy and 17 cigarettes were collected.  21 students signed up for information about the newly-forming UB STOPS Student Coalition.  In addition, numerous free resources were available to the UB population and 1-800-QUIT-NOW was promoted.  Look under "policy" to view the results of the survey.

UB Smoke Free: 2008 Spring Program Summary  

•  Wednesday February 13, 2008- "Have a Happy Heart" - Outreach- UB Smoke Free facts and freebies and all the cessation help you need to make your heart a happy one!

• Thursday March 6, 2008 - UB Smoke Free Coalition - Meeting- Discussed goals of the coalition, brainstormed event ideas and welcomed new members.

• Thursday March 27, 2008 - UB Smoke Free Coalition - Meeting - Program planning session.

• Thursday April 17, 2008- the UB Block Party, an all day campus-wide event was attended by approximately nine-hundred UB students, faculty, staff, and community members.  The objective was to promote UB Smoke Free, tobacco cessation and education.  UB Smoke Free coalition members were visible throughout the day wearing their coalition t-shirts and engaging the community by handing out "Smoke-free Zone" temporary tattoos while marketing UB Smoke Free.  Coalition members created a unique "kissing booth" that was displayed on the quad with "free kiss" signs pointing to it. 

• Thursday April 30, 2008- "Final Countdown Freak out: Sooth your stress with UB Smoke Free facts and freebies!"  Coalition members posted fliers, handed out give-a-ways and information on tobacco use and cessation, solicited coalition members, and visibly promoted UB Smoke Free by wearing coalition t-shirts.  The objective of the event was to promote UB Smoke Free on campus.  Although the weather posed a challenge, approximately seventy mini massagers and eleven quit kits were given away!

• Wednesday April 22, 2008- coalition members participated in an activity, "UB Smoke Free Kicks Butts" by posting forty educational fliers regarding cigarette litter campus-wide to celebrate Earth Day. 

• Thursday May 1, 2008- Car wash fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.  The objective of the event was to collaborate with other campus organizations, to promote UB Smoke Free, and tobacco education and cessation.  The car wash was a collaborative event with the Student Events Board, Omicron Delta Kappa, UB Leadership Program, and the UB Wellness Center. Over 300 dollars was raised on a rainy day!

                                       UB Smoke Free: 2008 Fall Program Summary

•   Tuesday September 9, 2008- UB Smoke Free Coalition Meeting- Returning members from last year and a few new ones discussed new events we could hold in addition to the traditional ones that we participate in on campus.

•  Tuesday and Thursday September 9 & 10, 2008- We set up an outreach table in our Student Center Lobby to help promote our coalition and pass out quit kits to smokers interested in quitting.

• Thursday September 25, 2008- UB Smoke Free had a table at our campus' Student Life Expo. Our theme was "Healthy Aging" which was paired with our Wellness Center. To do our part we had comparisons of healthy lungs and a smoker's lung. We also set up with a laptop that have a quiz for smoker's to take to find out how many years had been taken off there life depending on how much they've smoked.

• Tuesday October 14, 2008- UB Smoke Free Coalition- Meeting - Coalition members discussed trivia questions to ask the attendees of our upcoming campus "Block Party". Also constructed a "Sandwich Board" which had additional trivia questions for people to answer for a prize.

• Thursday October 16, 2008- Attended Block Party and handed out coailition shirts to 6 people who answered 6 questions correctly about smoking policies and statistics. Also the sandwich was worn by some of the members to help promote the coalitition.

• Thursday October 23, 2008- "Take back your time day"- The members of the coalition set up fun activities like disc golf, football, hula hoops and basketballs out to Gordon Plaza as an alternative way to relieve stress. We also took out sidewalk chalk and wrote historical facts on smoking and quotes from tobacco companies. The students loved being able to blow off some steam and it did distract some of the chain smokers from their habit. 

• Tuesday November 11, 2008- UB Smoke Free Coalition- Meeting- Members discussed possible events to be held for the spring semester.

• Thursday November 20, 2008- "Great American Smoke Out" We gave out free turkey subs (and had a veggie option for those who didnt eat meat) for anyone who was a smoker and gave up a cigarette and signed a pledge to give up smoking for the rest of the day or to non smokers who filled out a survey. We had a turn out of 80 non smokers and 20 smokers. We also had a few smokers display a desired to quit and we provided them with our quit kit.

• Tuesday December 9, 2008- UB Smoke Free Coalition- Meeting- Coalition members helped update our "UB Smoke Free" bulletin board for the upcoming semester.

There are no events schedule for July 2010.