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WEB RESOURCES
- American Lung Association’s Quit Smoking page: Facts about smoking, secondhand smoke, and lung disease including emphysema and lung cancer.
- Smoking and Tobacco Use from the CDC is very comprehensive and provides a great summary of resources for the public
- Health Effects of Smoking: Information on diseases caused by tobacco use, such as cancer, heart disease, and respiratory diseases. Also find information on the health effects of smoking during pregnancy.
- "Are You Hooked?": The Hooked on Nicotine Checklist consists of ten questions to help you figure out if giving up tobacco would either be unpleasant or require an effort.
- Women and Tobacco: Fact sheet on the number of women who smoke in the U.S. with stats on health outcomes including mortality.
- Smokefree.gov allows you to choose the help that best fits your needs. You can get immediate assistance in the form of: An online step-by-step cessation guide, Local and state telephone quitlines, National Cancer Institute's telephone quitline and instant messaging service, and publications, which may be downloaded, printed, or ordered
- Craving Journal to print out, fill out, and identify triggers
- Freedom from Smoking Online: The American Lung Association’s free online smoking cessation program. The program consists of 7 modules that guide you through the process of quitting and give you strategies to stay smoke-free in the future
- Smoking Cessation: Ready, Set, Go!: This page provides you with some of the basic information you need to make a decision to stop smoking and some places to get help.
- Nicotine Replacement Therapy Options: A list of the FDA-approved nicotine replacement options including the patch, gum, and lozenges. Also includes information on Chantix.
- Try-to-Stop is a web-based support program sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. It has a free Quit Wizard that personalizes the quitting process based on your preferences and includes tools like calendars, progress meters, and savings calculators to motivate and keep you on track
- Check out this page to find out which resources and smoking cessation meds your insurance covers
- When it comes to quitting smoking, many people find online bulletin boards helpful. If you're interested in participating in a bulletin board community, here are three good places to start:
- Become an Ex: On this personalized smoking cessation support site, you’ll find plenty of tools, resources, information, and exercises that will help prepare you to quit. Allows you to create a free confidential profile so that you can set a quit date, track your progress online, complete & save exercises, and join the online community.
- QuitNet: Don't Quit Alone. Science-based quit smoking strategies, expert resources, and thousands of former smokers will help you stop smoking, and stay stopped.
- Oprah's Stop Smoking Support Board: Popular discussion board providing information and support.
- Find other Quit Smoking Resources here including links to other websites as well as information on specific medications and therapies
- Quit Smoking Community Site: Blog posts, discussion boards, news, images, videos, and other means of support to help you quit
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PARTNERS RESOURCES
Low-cost group (and some individual) quit-smoking counseling programs are offered at these locations. Reduced-cost nicotine replacement is usually offered to participants.
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TELEPHONE SUPPORT PROGRAMS
- Massachusetts Smokers’ Helpline
1-800-TRY-TO-STOP (1-800-879-8678)
1-800-8DEJALO (Spanish/Portuguese)
1-800-TDD-1477 (Hearing Impaired)
- National Quitline (smokers outside MA)
1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)
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ARTICLES
- "Anxiety, Stress and Smoking": Discusses stress, anxiety, and anxiety disorders and provides some tips on how to tell the difference.
- "Smoking and Depression": To no one’s great surprise, there are some rather strong connections between smoking cigarettes and depression. You may have noticed that many smokers, perhaps even you, are more likely to show signs of depression than people who don’t smoke. So what do we know about this connection?
- "Smoking and Heart Disease": The most common type of heart disease is atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). It is the type of heart disease that causes more deaths in this country than any other cause and it is the type of heart disease that is caused by and aggravated by smoking.
- "Smoking and your Sex Life": Well guys, here's the bad news: smoking causes erectile dysfunction. But smoking is a preventable cause of impotence. If you don't want do stop smoking to protect your heart or your lungs, you might want to stop to protect your sex life.
- "Smoking and your Weight: Questions and Answers": If you have questions about smoking and your weight, this article is designed to provide you with some answers.
- "Smoking as a Women's Health Issue": Smoking is a health issue for women from young adulthood through old age. Smoking causes addiction and reduced athletic performance in teens; infertility and miscarriage in young women; cervical cancer, lung cancer, and early menopause in the middle years; and facial wrinkling, tooth loss, osteoporosis, and heart disease in older women. And nearly 100% of this suffering is preventable.
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VIDEOS
- What You Don't Know About the Hazards of Smoking: While most smokers are aware that smoking is hazardous, many aren't aware of all the ways it can impact their health. But quitting improves health almost immediately. And there's help out there for those who are ready to reap those benefits.
- How Kicking Cigarettes Helps Your Heart: Dr. Jonathan Sackner Bernstein on how quitting smoking improves your cardiovascular health.
- So You Want to Quit Smoking: We all know the dangers smoking has on the body and most smokers want to quit smoking. But it is an addiction and smoking cessation isn't easy. There are nicotine cravings and troublesome withdrawal symptoms like increased appetite and nervousness.
- Medications to Help You Break the Nicotine Addiction: Overcoming the addiction to nicotine is one of the toughest things smokers face when they quit. But there are several over-the-counter and prescription medications to help smokers break that addiction.
- Tips for Selecting a 'Quit Smoking' Aid: Smoking substitutes like the patch have helped many people kick the habit. But which nicotine fix is right for you?
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