Tobacco Prevention: A Top Priority

• Preventing youth from beginning tobacco use

• Helping people quit

• Reducing exposure to secondhand smoke

• Reducing tobacco use in high-risk groups

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Helping People Quit

Find out more about Quit Line

About 46 million Americans smoke regularly, and 70 percent of those men, women, and children want to quit.  Quitting is not easy, but studies show that tobacco users are two to three times more likely to quit successfully if they receive help, especially skills training, counseling, and medication, such as nicotine replacement patches and gum.

Helping people quit using tobacco is a major emphasis of the state program and involves a variety of activities.  These include operating a free adult telephone quit line (800-QUIT-NOW) supported by a statewide media campaign and the Web site, quitline.com, funding local quitting programs, working with insurers to include help with quitting their coverage, and training doctors and other healthcare providers to help their patients quit.

The help you need

• What happens when you quit
• Tips for quitting from Washington tobacco Quit Line
• How to quit from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Information about Washington's cessation efforts

• Want to quit using tobacco, but not sure about calling the quit line?
  Check out the quit line online at quitline.com.
• Helping people quit fact sheet
• View the quit line television ads  (Note: requires QuickTime and may be slow to download due to file size).

Where to find anti-tobacco information in your:

• Cross-cultural community

• County

• Tribe

• Educational Service District

Tobacco use rates in Washington State

Tobacco use rates by county

Links to other sites of interest*

• Tobacco cessation materials from the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General

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 * Links to external resources are provided as a public service for educational purposes only. External links do not imply endorsement by the Washington State Department of Health of any political, commercial, promotional or other proprietary content that may be included in linked Web sites.

Linked external Web pages are routinely monitored by the Department for materials that advocate for political outcomes. If you find any materials on a directly linked Web page that advocates for, or against, any political candidates, ballot measures, or referendums, please contact us immediately so that the link may be promptly removed.

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