The New York State Smokers’ Quitline Has Your A’s Covered!

A New York State Dept. of Health campaign developed to encourage primary health care providers and other clinicians to take an active role in helping their patients who smoke to quit. More

Don’t Be Silent About Smoking

The Quitline offers healthcare providers an effective and efficient way to help tobacco-using patients stop smoking. The Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline recommends that providers:

1. Ask about their tobacco use
2. Advise them to Quit
3. Assess for willingness to quit
4. Assist in a quit attempt
5. Arrange for follow-up

You Ask and Advise and we’ll do the rest.

Send your tobacco-using patients to the Quitline and we will Assess, Assist and Arrange. Trained Quit Coaches will screen patients for FREE Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) eligibility and provide cessation counseling. Eligible patients will receive NRT in the mail and an additional counseling call. Health providers will receive a patient progress report.

Healthcare Providers can:

Refer patients through our Refer-to-Quit program or “prescribe” patients to call the Quitline number.