Quit tobacco today
Break the tobacco habit and improve your health!
Why quit?
Save money!
Enjoy the health benefits:
- After 20 minutes, blood pressure and heart rate are lower
- After 12 hours, carbon monoxide level in your blood drops
- After 48 – 72 hours, carbon monoxide in your blood is gone, taste and smell return, and breathing may be easier
- After 1 – 3 months, heart attack risk is lower, breathing is better, blood flow has improved, walking might be easier, and smoker’s cough is gone
Treatment options
Group classes
- Weekly group meetings with virtual and hybrid 8-week sessions
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Contact your Primary Care Team for a referral at
Nicotine replacement
- Gum
- Lozenges
- Patch
- Inhaler
Medication
- Buproprion (Zyban, Wellbutrin)
- Variencline (Chantix)
Combination therapies
- Varenicline monotherapy OR combo with NRT
- Nicotine patch + Nicotine gum
- Nicotine patch + Nicotine lozenge
- Nicotine patch + Bupropion
- Nicotine gum + Bupropion
- Nicotine lozenge + Bupropion
Get started!
- Set a quit date
- Get support -- ask family, friends and coworkers
- Review past quit attempts -- what helped; what didn't?
- The day you plan to quit -- get rid of all tobacco products from your home, car or work (throw out cigarettes, ashtrays and lighters)