Tobacco Use Cessation

TFCNY works in each of the counties to change the environment in which residents live, learn, work and play, with the goal of motivating tobacco users to quit. While most users quit on their own, for those who want or need help, effective services and treatments are available.

The New York State Quitline provides free, confidential services that include information, tools, quit coaching and support in English and Spanish. Provides FREE starter kits of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) patches to eligible New Yorkers. The Quitline also works with employers, health plans and health care providers to ensure New York tobacco users have access to effective cessation treatments.

 

The Surgeon General has declared youth e-cigarette use to be an epidemic. Nicotine addiction is one of the hardest to quit, but teens and young adults have help.  Parents or other adults who want to help a young person quit should text “QUIT” to (202) 899-7550.

New York State youth, ages 13-17, and young adults, ages 18-24, can text DropTheVape to 88709 to sign up to receive age-appropriate supportive and motivating text messages to support quit efforts. Enrollees in the program receive interactive daily text messages tailored to their sign-up date or their target quit date if they set one. Those without a quit date receive messages for at least one month. Program users who set a quit date (which they can change) receive messages for at least one week prior to the quit date and for at least two months following the quit date.

Other local resources include:

Upstate Smoking Cessation Program
http://www.upstate.edu/hospital/health/healthlink/smokefree.php