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• Do You cAARd?

  This campaign challenges diabetes educators to share the Take Charge Gold Card with their patients with diabetes who smoke or chew tobacco, a card that urges smokers to call a smoking cessation hotline, and use their "ask, advise, refer" intervention with every patient at every visit.

  California Diabetes Program

• Eat Right, Live Right

  This video program and podcast discusses dietary trends and guidelines.  The full program is available online, but CME credits are no longer available.

  Discovery Health CME

• Eat Smart. Play Hard.

  This campaign provides practical resources to help motivate children and their caregivers to eat healthy and be active.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food & Nutrition Service (FNS)

• EnhanceFitness

  Registration Required

  This in-person exercise program for older adults helps to increase your strength, boost your activity levels, and elevate your mood through dynamic exercises at a pace that's right for you.

  Project Enhance

• EX

  Registration Required

  This quit smoking program helps you re-learn your life without cigarettes.  The EX Plan helps you see quitting not as one big war, but as a number of little battles you can actually win.  Includes tools to chart your progress and set your quit smoking date.

  EX

• Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide

  This guide shows you many types of exercise and physical activity.  It also has lots of tips to help you be active in ways that suit your lifestyle, interests, health, and budget, whether you’re just starting out, getting back to exercising after a break, or fit enough to run a 3-mile race. It’s for everyone—people who are healthy and those who live with an ongoing health problem or disability. En español

  National Institute on Aging (NIA)

• Fit for Two

  This booklet provides tips and ideas to improve your eating plan and become more physically active before, during, and after your pregnancy.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• Fitness Programs: 5 Steps to Getting Started

  These guidelines will take you through five steps for getting started with a fitness program, including assessing your fitness level, desigining a program that's right for you, assembling your equipment, taking action, and monitoring your progress.

  Mayo Clinic

• Focus on Diabetes

  These interactive online lessons are designed to educate you on topics such as diabetes management, healthy eating, physical activity, medication, glucose levels, monitoring, and more.

  University of Georgia

• Freedom from Smoking

  Registration Required

  This online program helps you begin the journey to quit smoking by taking you through a series of modules with activities designed to help you prepare to quit and stay committed.

  American Lung Association (ALA)