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SmokefreeVET

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A mobile text message smoking cessation service with 24/7 encouragement, advice, and tips to help veterans quit for good. You don’t need to sign up to get support: text the keywords URGE, STRESS, or SMOKED any time to 47848 for support.
Visit SmokefreeVET

or Text VET to IQUIT (47848)

VA Primary Care Provider

Your VA primary care provider can help you get the right counseling and medicines to help you quit smoking.
Find providers near you

UCanQuit2.org

UCanQuit2.org provides the opportunity to learn more about tobacco cessation, develop a personalized plan for quitting, create a personal or public blog, and get live online help around the clock. Contact an expert coach to get answers about quitting tobacco, join a real-time group chat with a coach, or chat with others who are working to become tobacco free. Visit UcanQuit2.org

Tobacco & Health - Public Health

Visit Public Health's
Tobacco & Health site

For Everyone:

Smokefree.gov

Smokefree.gov allows you to choose the help that best fits your needs. You can get immediate assistance in the form of:

  • A step-by-step quit smoking guide
  • Information about a wide range of topics related to smoking and quitting
  • An interactive U.S. map highlighting smoking information in your state
  • LiveHelp, National Cancer Institute's instant messaging service
  • National Cancer Institute's telephone quitline, 1-877-44U-QUIT
  • Local and state telephone quitlines, 1-800-QUIT-NOW
  • Publications to download, print, or order
Visit Smokefree.gov

National Quit Line

Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

call 1-800-QUIT-NOW
(1-800-784-8669)

Smokeless Tobacco

A helpful guide for quitting smokeless tobacco.
Visit Smokeless Tobacco:
A Guide for Quitting

Healthfinder Resources

Helpful guides and resources about tobacco.
Visit Healthfinder

National Cancer Institute

Call 8:00AM-8:00PM EST, Monday-Friday

call 1-877-44U-QUIT
(1-877-448-7848)

Online LiveHelp Chat 8:00AM-11:00PM EST, Monday-Friday

Goto LiveHelp Chat Visit NCI

For Women:

SmokeFreeWomen

SmokeFree.gov's quit smoking website tailored specifically to women.
Visit SmokeFreeWomen

WomensHealth.gov

Empowering women to live healthier lives!
Visit WomensHealth.gov

Other Information:

Smoking & Tobacco Use - CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through its Office on Smoking and Health (OSH), is the lead federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control.
Visit the CDC's
Smoking & Tobacco site

Tobacco - Surgeon General

Beginning with the first report in 1964, smoking has been the single most important issue for all the Surgeons General of the past five decades.
Visit Surgeon General's
Tobacco Reports