Our program takes an individualized approach and offers:

• Individual coaching and counseling with a registered nurse;
  • Our American Lung Association-trained facilitators are available at each class session to answer questions and coach you through stopping smoking. All facilitators provide contact information for between-class support. Our facilitators are prepared to help you create a stop-smoking plan that will provide you with the support you need to successfully become a non-smoker.

• Tobacco cessation classes and peer support;

  • Participants support each other by offering encouragement for quitting smoking.
  • Eight sessions of class cover every topic you need to become a non-smoker.

1. Thinking about quitting - understand addiction and the benefits of quitting.
2. On the road to freedom - lifestyle changes, reasons to stop smoking, and quit-smoking medication information.
3. Wanting to quit - Create your plan to quit smoking and learn how to help a friend quit.
4. Quit day - reward yourself.
5. Winning strategies - what to do if you get off track.
6. The new you - tips for staying smoke free, weight control and hunger.
7. Staying off - activity and communication.
8. Celebration - preventing relapse, celebrate change.

• Online resources for quitting tobacco;

  • Freedom from Smoking info from American Lung Association
  • U.S. government’s Quit Smoking Guide
  • American Cancer Society’s Guide to Quitting Smoking
  • American Lung Association’s Stop Smoking
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Quit Smoking materials

• Information on nicotine replacement products; and

  • The Break Free - Freedom from Smoking program will provide you with a voucher good towards a free one-month supply of the smoking cessation medication you and your doctor choose. Working with your doctor, you can choose from a wide variety of options including Chantix, Nicotrol, Nicorette, nicotine patches, nicotine lozenges, or Wellbutrin.

• Professional follow-up after the course conclusion.

  • One of our nurses will call you three weeks after all classes have ended to follow up and to provide support for continued success.

Funding for this project was provided in part by The Missouri Foundation for Health. The Missouri Foundation for Health is a philanthropic organization whose vision is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves.

Our American Lung Association-trained facilitators are experienced in helping men and women become non-smokers. They can provide you with the resources and knowledge you need to stop smoking.

Belinda Krchelich, RN-BC, BSN, OCN
Tori Greving, RN
Stan Webb

For more information or to register, call the James E. Cary Cancer Center at 573-406-1633.