With many people resolving to quit smoking for the new year, south carolina is offering free help to residents who want to kick the habit. Find your communitys local patch in south carolina. Dhec utilizes quitline to help residents quit tobacco usage. Quitlinenc provides free cessation services to any north carolina resident who needs help quitting tobacco use. Coronavirus outbreak good time to quit smoking, agency.
South carolina news keep up with what your neighbors are reading on the patch. Enrollment in quitlinenc is open to all north carolina residents, regardless of income or insurance status, who are ready to set a quit date within the next 30 days. Welcome kit get a kit that includes our quit guide to start your quitting plan and make your quit stick. Dhec helps uninsured smokers quit with free nicotine gum. Quit coaching is available in different forms, which can be used separately or together, to help any tobacco user give up tobacco. Provider follows a brief tobacco intervention bti and advises patient to quit.
Health officials say now is an important time to quit smoking, and the s. Interpretation service available for other languages. The quitline can help individuals develop personalized quit plans, and free nicotine replacement therapy such as patches, gum and lozenges are available to callers. Must enroll and can get nicotine gum, lozenges or patches.
The quitline will make up to four 4 attempts to reach your patient. Dhec urges south carolinians to quit smoking to better. Around 759,000 people in south carolina smoke cigarettes, according to the south carolina department of health and environmental. These smoking cessation services can be accessed by phone or online, allowing south carolinians to safely remain home during this pandemic while accessing these services. Get started today, and connect with 1on1 support to beat urges, manage withdrawal symptoms and switch up your habits so you can enjoy life tobaccofree. If patient is ready to quit, complete sbirt universal tool. Free quitting medications and counseling are available to all south carolinians by calling the sc tobacco quitline 1 800 quit now 1. Intervention helped boost success rates a bit, even when counseling wasnt included, study found.
Bti should include assessment by asking patients readiness to quit. Dhecs sc tobacco quitline, at 1800quitnow 18007848669, provides free oneonone telephone coaching and webbased and text message support 24 hours, seven days a week to help tobacco users. First vaping death in south carolina reported by health. Dhec urges smokers to use free quitline to better protect. Oneonone coaching phone or webbased counseling and support development of a personalized quit plan. Check out some of the tools and resources below that may be available to you. Free nicotine patches, gum, or lozenges are available to eligible south carolinians who enroll in quitline services.
Call 1800quitnow 18007848669 open 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Dhec helps uninsured smokers quit with free nicotine gum and patches january 20, 2015 at 7. Free nicotine lozenges, patches or gum by state yo. Dhec offering free resources to help south carolinians. Answers to common questions from providers about the south carolina tobacco quitline. Can get free gum, lozenges or patches for those underinsured, uninsured or for some of those that are on medicare and who have enrolled. South carolina patches get south carolina local news.
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