Tobacco Cessation
Are You Ready to Quit Tobacco Use?
Free Nicotine Replacement Therapy
A 4-week supply of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) - the "patch", lozenge, or gum is available at no cost to individuals who enroll in either phone based tobacco cessation counseling with Idaho QuitLine (1-800-784-8669) or web based cessation counseling with idaho.quitnet.com. Must be 18 years or older.
Funded by Idaho Tobacco Millennium Funds, Coordinated by Project Filter
Free Phone and Internet Cessation Services
These services are funded by the Idaho Tobacco Prevention and Control Program at the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. No tax dollars are involved.
Idaho QuitLine 1-800-QuitNow (1-800-784-8669)
Help to quit smoking is now just a phone call away. The Idaho QuitLine is a free telephone counseling service designed to help smokers quit. This confidential service connects tobacco users with trained counselors who guide and support them through the process of becoming tobacco-free.
idaho.quitnet.com
The Idaho QuitNet is a free internet service that can help you quit smoking. It offers expert advice on quitting, online support from other smokers who are trying to quit and information about medications that may make quitting easier. QuitNet is available 24 hours a day.
Free Classes
Coordinated by Central District Health Department and funded by Idaho Tobacco Millennium monies.
Most classes meet five times and cover the following topics:
- Nicotine addiction and habit
- Consequences of tobacco use
- Information and tips on how to quit
- Dealing with withdrawal symptoms
- Managing stress through relaxation techniques
- Avoiding weight gain
- Social supports
- How to become a non-tobacco user for good!
Smoking in the Work Place
Effective July 1, 2008 the Central District Health Department banned all tobacco use on health department property in Ada, Elmore and Valley counties. For the complete story click here:
The Board of Health for CDHD decided to go tobacco-free because of the well-established fact that tobacco use, including being subjected to secondhand smoke, is hazardous to health. In addition to banning tobacco use on CDHD property, the health district is taking the further step of discouraging tobacco users from applying for jobs at the health department. CDHD is not the first organization in the area to enact hiring policies that favor non-tobacco users. In fact, the Ada County Sheriff’s Department has had a similar policy in place for more than a decade.
Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney talked about the Sheriff’s Department policy with the J-105 morning crew on October 23, 2008. Listen to the interview here. (Length 8:42)
Under CDHD policies, employees can use tobacco, but must go off campus to do so. All tobacco-using employees have been offered assistance in quitting.
Additional Resources
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- American Cancer Society
- American Lung Association
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Coalition for a Healthy Idaho
Cessation for Pregnant Women
Cessation for Teens
Contacts for Free Classes
Boise and Meridian
Nancy Caspersen, RN
208-342-0308
www.quitandlive.net
nancycaspersen@cableone.net
Barbara Gilbert
208-327-8547
Email Barbara
Michelle Wright
Youth Classes
208-938-9380
Email Michelle
McCall
Tamara Kam
208-634-4061 ext. 247
Email Judy
Mtn Home
Anne Bush
208-587-4623
Email Anne
Contact
Nancy Rush, RD
Program Coordinator
Tobacco Cessation
208-327-8546
Email Nancy
