Smoking Cessation brochure

Online Quit Guides & Resources

Who We Are

TFC

American Cancer Society (ACS): To speak to a quit specialist: 1(800) 227-2345 Guide to Quitting Smoking: www.cancer.org Cessation Nation Android App: See how long it’s been since you stopped smoking, the amount of money you’ve saved, cigarettes not smoked, and health improvements. Play a fun distracting game while you forget about your cravings. Join the vibrant Facebook community offering support to everyone who has chosen to stop smoking!

Freedom From Smoking® (ALA): An online adult cessation site: www.ffsonline.org Get Rich or Die Smoking Android App: Why do you spend so much money on damaging your health? Why don’t you spend this money more reasonably?

This app helps you to stop smoking by showing what you can now afford with the money saved.

Mayo Clinic: Teen smoking: How to help your teen quit. www.mayoclinic.com National Cancer Institute: Cessation information: www.smokefree.gov Teen cessation initiative: www.teen.smokefree.gov The American Legacy Association: The EX Plan is a free quit smoking program that helps you re-learn life without cigarettes. The website offers a free plan to quit as well as access to a virtual community and various mobile formats: www.becomeanex.org

Tobacco-Free Coalition

Vision: We envision a region free of tobacco use.

Mission: Our mission is to promote healthy lives free of tobacco in all its forms by:

• Reducing tobacco use

• Keeping people from starting tobacco use

• Educating the public about tobacco-related health issues

• Supporting those who want to quit

• Advocating for positive reform

TFC is a network of organizations, businesses and individuals who are building support for tobacco prevention and control in the Miami Valley.

If you would like to join TFC or receive more information, please contact: Montgomery County Tobacco-Free Coalition c/o Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County 117 South Main Street, Dayton, OH 45422 (937) 225-4398 • www.phdmc.org

Tobacco Cessation Services in Montgomery County

Quitting is: Brought to you by: Montgomery County

Ohio Department of Health: QuitLogix http//ohio.quitlogix.org/ Web-based program available to individuals who are ready to quit or just thinking about it. Available 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. Provides access to tailored motivational messages, step-by-step guides to cutting and quitting tobacco as well as online support from other quitters and quit specialists.

July 2014

OHIO TOBACCO

QUITLINE

CALL IT QUITS.

1-800-QUIT-NOW OHIO DEPARTMENT of HEALTH

1-800-784-8669 http://ohio.QuitLogix.org

Montgomery County Tobacco Cessation Services American Lung Association in Ohio

Dayton VA Medical Center

Freedom from Smoking (FFS) • (513) 985-3990

Dr. Ramon Verdaguer, Health Psychologist (937) 268-6511, ext. 2659 • www.dayton.va.gov

• FFS Clinic: Provided by onsite facilitator - fee determined by class size and location • FFS Online: www.ffsonline.org - free option available • FFS Facilitator Training - $350 - various location training sites • Lung HelpLine: 1-800-586-4872 - free • Fee varies by program.

Dayton Children’s Hospital Teen Program Call for specific dates and times and to register.

Belinda Huffman • (937) 641-3266 www.childrensdayton.org (search for STAND) This teen program consists of a 1.5 hr. group session a week for five weeks. The objective is to help teens choose healthy attitudes and behaviors through discussion, use of visual aids, and role play. The topics are goal-setting, problem solving, stress reduction, effects of tobacco use, and the quitting process. This program is an alternative to school suspension, court ordered for tobacco violation and for teens self-motivated to quit. The program is held at Dayton Children’s Hospital or in your community upon special request.

• $25 per person - pay at time of program.

Scholarship funds pending assessment of need.

Group and individual cessation is provided to assist those who are determined to quit tobacco use.

Individual counseling and medications are avialable to veterans and VA employees who are determined to quit tobacco use.

• Support and Tips: text the word VET to 47848 • Materials: www.publichealth.va.gov/smoking • Quitline: 1-855-784-8838

Premier Health Miami Valley Hospital (MVH) Lori Wulf Nichols • (937) 208-2828 1-877-MVH-HLTH (1-877-684-4584) MVH in partnership with Public Health provides cessation for employees, patients and the community.

Cessation is provided by a Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist. This is a five week program that helps participants gain confidence and equips them with the tools to be successful in choosing a tobaccofree lifestyle. Public Health provides one month of patches free for participants.

Premier Community Health (PCH) (937) 227-9423 PCH provides 8 weeks of one-on-one counseling sessions preparing the smoker to quit. For employers, the smoking cessation group classes are held once a week for 8 weeks. The cost is $40 per person.

• Free / by appointment only Worksite: $40 per participant Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Mike Papio (937) 904-9355 http://www.wpafb.af.mil/ Classes are offered monthly. All the Tobacco Cessation classes are 1 session 11am-12:30pm.

Classes are open to Active Duty, Reservists, Guard, retired military and their dependents, and base civilian employees. Contract and retired civil service employees may attend on a space-available basis.

• Free

• Free / participants will also receive free parking.

Ohio Department of Health

Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County (PHDMC)

Ohio Tobacco QuitLine • 1-800-QUIT NOW 1-800-784-8669 • https://ohio.quitlogix.org/

Bruce Barcelo • bbarcelo@phdmc.org (937) 225-4398 • www.phdmc.org

Ohio Tobacco Collaborative (614) 466-1390

PHDMC partners with worksites, schools and community organizations to offer free tobacco cessation for residents of Montgomery County.

Cessation is provided by a Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist using the Mayo Clinic Cessation Model. PHDMC provides one month of patches free for participants.

• Free for Montgomery County residents.

The QUITLINE offers free cessation telephonic counseling services to uninsured Ohioans, Medicaid recipients, pregnant women and members of the Ohio Tobacco Collaborative.

Eligible callers can receive two weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy.