The Quit and Win Contest is a unique and exciting opportunity for University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Campus students who are current cigarette smokers to become smoke-free, while at the same time, enter into a contest with a chance to win one of three outstanding prizes!

The goal of this contest is simple – to help smokers quit. The timing of the contest was chosen with purpose to help celebrate a significant local event - Hennepin County bars and restaurants going smoke-free. This project is funded by Hennepin Medical Society. Student Service Fees are not being used to fund this project.

This contest is for students who have smoked 10 or more days per month for the past year and are interested in quitting. If the smoker successfully stops using tobacco for the entire month of April, he or she is eligible to win fabulous prizes! All contest entrants will have access to FREE nicotine replacement therapies. Smoke-free status of potential winners will be verified by a lab test.

The contest is open to all registered University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus students who are regular smokers. The smoker must select a smoke-free friend who is also a registered U of M -Twin Cities Campus student as their contest partner.

Deadline to enter contest is midnight, March 31st, 2005

Three lucky contest entrants, who successfully quit smoking, will be chosen at random for the following prizes:

• Grand Prize: All-inclusive, Trip-for-Two to Riviera Maya, Mexico.
  This includes airfare, ground transportation, food and non-alcoholic beverages and a one-week stay for two at a renowned resort.
• 2nd Place Prize: A $1,000 gift certificate to the winner's choice of the following: Midwest Mountaineering, Marshall Fields, Target or Best Buy.
• 3rd Place Prize: The Minneapolis Dinner Package - three $100 gift certificates for local Minneapolis restaurants.
• Smoke-free Friend Prize: One lucky smoke-free friend will be chosen at random to win their choice of:
  • A $300 gift certificate to the winner's choice of the following: Midwest Mountaineering, Marshall Fields, Target or Best Buy;
    or
  • The Minneapolis Dinner Package - three $100 gift certificates for local Minneapolis restaurants.

Keeping in mind that this contest is only open to University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Campus students who are regular cigarette smokers, we predict the odds of winning will be truly outstanding!