Health Education has wellness programs and events available throughout the year. Examples are:
Blood Pressure Screenings on campus
Breast and Testicular Cancer Awareness Week
Health Lecture Series
Safer Spring Break
S.O.S. Stop Over Stressing Month
Please check our calendar of events for more information.
Please visit www.wellness.uconn.edu for more wellness information.
Other resources available for Wellness are:
Nutrition
Please visit the nutrition web site www.nutrition.uconn.edu or call the nutrition office at 486-0771 with any questions. The nutrition office at Student Health Services offers Registered Dietitians, free Individual Nutrition Counseling, Group Presentations and Programs.
Recreation
Please visit UConn's Department of Recreational Services web site web.uconn.edu/recreation. Recreation Services offers services such as yoga, spinning, intramurals, and HuskyXcursions.
Smoking
There are resources available to help you quit. Please follow the links below for more information.
For individual smoking cessation consultation, please contact Student Health Service's Primary Care at 486-2719 or stop by Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. to make an appointment. www.shs.uconn.edu
Facts about the cost of cigarettes
Packs Per Week
$ each year (conservative price of $5 a pack)
What you could buy...
1
$260
PlayStation2 game system and one game catridge
2
$520
17 half-hour massage sessions at Atlantis
3
$780
1 week Spring Break trip to Cancun, Mexico
4
$1040
Futon, Entertainment Center with TV, VCR, DVD-player, Sony home audio system
5
$1300
Dell Dimension 8200 Personal Desktop Computer with Pentium 4 processor 2.0GHz w/ 400MHz system bus & 512K L2 Cache. Windows XP, Microsoft Works Suite 2002, Premium Audio, and a 3 year Warranty plus 3 years at-home-service, with a Lexmark X73 multifunction print center and S&H (translation- one of the better home PC's on Dell.com)
6
$1560
Approximate average auto insurance for one year of a typical UConn student
7 (1 pack/day)
$1820
Hartford to Paris roundtrip airfare, one week Paris hotel, one week standard Parisian car rental
