Mayo Clinic Tobacco Cessation Program
Provides Personalized Support to Quit Smoking

Mayo Clinic Tobacco Quitline is a tobacco cessation program providing critical support to help participants quit smoking. Research indicates that smokers have significantly higher health care costs; higher absenteeism rates and are less productive. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it costs employers $3,300 per year for every tobacco user, or $1,300 more than a nonsmoking individual.

Mayo Clinic Tobacco Quitline provides the kind of personalized support your people need to quit. Mayo Clinic physicians, nurses, researchers and professional counselors designed this innovative, telephonic tobacco cessation program. Drawing on the extensive resources of Mayo Clinic, only Mayo Clinic Tobacco Quitline offers:

• Evidence-based program model following the U.S. Public Health Service Guideline, North American Quitline Consortium model and behavioral research
• Successful quit rates speak to our unique approach which combines motivational interviewing, self management education, pharmacotherapy and  relapse prevention
• Highly trained and supervised counselors with four year degrees in psychology, social work, sociology, or counseling; and completion of the Mayo Clinic Tobacco Treatment Specialist certification program
• Personalized quit plans with program materials tailored to the participant’s needs, including an interactive workbook that guides callers through each stage of change
• Access to Ask Mayo Clinic nurse line 24 hours a day, seven days a week for help with nicotine withdrawal symptoms
• Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) assessment and fulfillment

To further increase participants' potential for success, Mayo Clinic Tobacco Quitline incorporates relapse prevention strategies, referrals to other available resources, and a one-on-one relationship between the participant and a designated coach to increase the program's efficacy.