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Belated New Year's Resolutions: Quit Smoking at the Sheraton Chicago

Where: 301 E North Water St [map], Chicago, il, United States, 60611

February 6, 2008 at 10:56 AM | 0 Comments

Is quitting smoking one of your new year resolutions? The good news is that the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers has quit smoking this year, and they want to help you quit too.

The thing is that the Chicago Sheraton is now a 100% smoke-free environment, so rather than putting off its smoking guests, it's hoping to convert them to a smoke-free lifestyle with a couple of incentives. If you're staying at the hotel and you bring your pack of cigarettes and hand it over to the staff at the hotel fitness center, you'll be given a free one-day pass to use the fitness facilities.

The Chicago Sheraton suggests that "guests can "drown out" their cravings with a couple of laps" in the indoor swimming pool, although we're wondering if it's really that easy. On top of that, the trade-in for a pack of cigarettes will include a coupon to make one free phone call home, to get some moral support while you're trying to quit.

It's a cute gimmick, although we're not sure how many non-smokers it will produce, but what we're even more curious about is what the Chicago Sheraton fitness center staff are going to do with all the packs of cigarettes they collect.

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