Neighborhood Health Services

Neighborhood Health Services (NHS) is an indigent care clinic located in Tallahassee and is well known as a key provider of primary, mental and episodic care for the medically underserved, uninsured and persons who are homeless. NHS is used as a community-based clinical training site for FSU medical students. Faculty members provide medical services and supervise medical students who volunteer their time to help the underserved.

Additionally, poor and homeless patients that are seen at NHS are referred to the Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) from FSU College of Medicine. All referred patients are offered a one-on-one counseling session either in person or over the phone. All patients are given information on the Florida Quitline (insert link to Quitline) and those willing to quit within the next 30 days are signed up for Quit Smoking NOW (QSN) (insert link to QSN) classes that are held once a week at the clinic (see schedule of classes for 2010-2011 below). Follow-up information is sent back to each patient's physician informing them of the individualized cessation plan given to their patients, allowing the physicians to remain updated on the patient's progress.

Additionally, FSU COM has worked collaboratively to enroll the patients attending QSN classes into the FAMU Pharmacy Tobacco Program. Through this program patients can receive free pharmacotherapy and nicotine replacement therapy. Pharmacists follow up with patients monthly to track their progress. Patients that relapse are referred back to the TTS at the clinic. This program has been invaluable for the community and has assisted numerous poor and homeless patients to quit smoking.

For more information on the program at NHS please contact Olga Garmash at or 850-644-2292.

2010 NHS Quit Smoking NOW Schedule

  • Class starts July 20, 6-7pm (6 sessions every Tuesday)
  • Class starts July 21, 11-12pm (6 sessions every Wednesday)
  • Class starts August 31, 6-7pm (6 sessions every Tuesday)
  • Class starts September 1, 11-12pm (6 sessions every Wednesday)
  • Class starts October 12, 6-7pm (6 sessions every Tuesday)
  • Class starts October 13, 11-12pm (6 sessions every Wednesday)
  • Class starts November 23, 6-7pm (6 sessions every Tuesday)
  • Class starts November 24, 11-12pm (6 sessions every Wednesday)

2011 NHS Quit Smoking NOW Schedule

  • Class starts January 4, 6-7pm (6 sessions every Tuesday)
  • Class starts January 5, 11-12pm (6 sessions every Wednesday)
  • Class starts February 15, 6-7pm (6 sessions every Tuesday)
  • Class starts February 16, 11-12pm (6 sessions every Wednesday)
  • Class starts March 29, 6-7pm (6 sessions every Tuesday)
  • Class starts March 30, 11-12pm (6 sessions every Wednesday)
  • Class starts May 10, 6-7pm (6 sessions every Tuesday)
  • Class starts Mary 11, 11-12pm (6 sessions every Wednesday)