The American Indian Quitline has a dedicated team of American Indian coaches who understand your culture and respect your traditions. In addition to one-on-one coaching, the American Indian Quitline offers email and text support, educational materials, and quit medication nicotine patches, gum or lozenges delivered by mail. Quit Partner offers specialized support for people living with substance use disorder or a mental illness, such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, or bipolar disorder.
Quit Partner coaches can help people understand their commercial tobacco use in connection to their mood, thoughts, and behaviors. Coaches can help order quit medications, develop coping techniques and a quit plan, provide relapse prevention tips, and provide support to help you stay quit. Once enrolled, people can call any time for additional support.
The addiction of nicotine does not go away just because a person is pregnant or planning to be. Quit Partner offers judgement-free support to help pregnant and post-partum people quit without adding to the stress of having a baby. People who enroll are paired with a specially-trained female coach. The program is personalized to a person's needs, whether they are planning to get pregnant, are currently pregnant, or have just had a baby.
Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare cover counseling and quitting medications for free with a prescription. Quitting commercial tobacco is hard and can take multiple tries — but it is possible. These are just a few of the many benefits to quitting. Not only may quitting prevent bad breath, stained teeth, and premature wrinkles, it decreases the risk of many tobacco-related health consequences.
What's more, the human body begins to heal within just minutes of quitting:. Secondhand smoke causes early death and disease in both children and adults who do not smoke.
The aerosol in E-cigarettes contains nicotine as well as other substances that can have a negative effect on the body with other chemicals having the potential to cause cancer. To learn more information about E-cigarettes and vape products, click here. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about quitting smoking and get the right help you need to quit for good. Most insurances cover some Nicotine Replacement Therapies, talk to your insurance provider to find out more.
Tobacco Cessation Tobacco use is a leading cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Approximately 1 in 4 adults in the U. Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in the U. Tobacco use has substantial direct and indirect costs for the state and the public, health care providers, employers, insurers and individuals.
People who smoke have estimated health care costs that average 34 percent higher than nonsmokers. Tobacco dependence treatment is one of the most cost-effective preventive services, providing substantial return on investment in the short and long term. An estimated 70 percent of the 40 million adult smokers in the U. Data show that advice from health care providers increases the use of evidence-based cessation treatments and improves outcomes.
Tobacco use screening and brief intervention is one of the three most cost-effective clinical preventive services. Research shows that people are much more likely to successfully quit tobacco use if they receive help. For most smoking cessation treatments, the benefits of providing such treatments greatly outweigh the cost of providing them.
For more free help, visit Quitting Tobacco. Refer the People You Serve to Free Quit Support All Minnesota residents — whether they have health insurance or not — have access to free support to quit commercial tobacco. How to Make a Referral. As you and your client talk about their commercial tobacco use, you can offer the option of having a trained commercial tobacco cessation agent call the client as a resource to support quitting. If your client agrees, visit How to Refer Patients and complete the fax or web referral form.
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