The New York State Smokers’ Quitline Has Your A’s Covered!
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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
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Don’t Be Silent About Smoking
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The Quitline offers healthcare providers an effective and efficient way to help tobacco using patients stop smoking. The Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines recommend providers:
- Ask about their tobacco use
- Advise to Quit
- Assess for willingness to quit
- Assist in a quit attempt
- 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 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 Fax-to-Quit program or “prescribe” patients to
call the Quitline number.
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Patient Referral Forms and Quitline RX pads are
available by calling
1-866-NY-QUITS (1-866-697-8487)
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More FREE Quitline services for providers:
- Office materials including cessation guides, posters and Quitline handout cards.
- Health Care Provider Quit Kit, which includes office materials, Fax-To-Quit program forms, materials order form and more.
- Free Online Cessation CME program for physicians
- Referrals to the 19 New York State funded Cessation Centers (located throughout NYS) offering health provider training and support.