Every health care provider knows
how frustrating it is to watch healthy patients become smokers.
Now, North Carolina is doing something about it with a new, improved
Quitline. We're confident that your patients can warm up to cold
turkey with a little help from Quitline NC, and stay tobacco-free
for good.
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The improved Quitline NC offers:
- Trained cessation coaches, available 8 a.m. to
midnight, 7 days a week
- Proactive coaches who can initiate calls to patients
who are ready to quit
- A new fax referral service that speeds up the process
Using the new Quitline NC fax referral service is easy. Just follow
these steps:
- Complete the brief overview of the 5
A's of cessation support to learn how you can help your
patients become tobacco-free. This takes about 4 minutes.
- Download and fill out the fax referral form
on this Web site
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That's
it! After you perform those steps, you can start referring qualified
patients immediately.
Quitline NC is:
- Supported by the Health and Wellness Trust Fund
and the Division of Public Health, NC-DHHS
- Staffed by professionally trained smoking cessation
coaches
- Created for both adults and youth
- Free to all North Carolina residents

   
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