Resources to Help Quit Smoking

We are providing a number of links to additional stop smoking resources because we think these are helpful. The links go to websites that are not a part of Spine-health.com and Spine-health.com is not responsible for the content on the following sites.

• American Cancer Society (www.cancer.org)
• Cigar Smoking (also available in Spanish)
• Cigarette Smoking (available in Spanish through the ACS toll-free number)
• Double Your Chances of Quitting Smoking
• Guide to Quitting Smoking (available in Spanish through the toll-free number)
• Helping a Smoker Quit: Dos and Don'ts
• Join the Quit Network
• Questions About Smoking, Tobacco, and Health (available in Spanish through the ACS toll free number)
• Quitting Smoking - Help for Cravings and Tough Situations (available in Spanish through the ACS toll-free number)
• Smokeless Tobacco
• Smoking and Cancer Mortality Table
• Smoking in the Workplace -- A Model Policy
• Women and Smoking (available in Spanish through the ACS toll-free number)

Additional informational resources:

Annals Internal Medicine – Scientific review of smoking cessation intervention strategies www.annals.org

MedlinePlus – Quitting Smoking Resources
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingcessation.html

Smoking Cessation Informationhttp://www.smoking-cessation.org/

American Heart Association – Smoking Cessation
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4731

Organizations that provide information and help for quitting smoking:

American Heart Association & American Stroke Association
Telephone: 1-800-AHA-USA-1 or 1-800-242-8721
Telephone: 1-888-4-STROKE or 1-888-478-7653
Internet address: www.amhrt.org
Internet address: www.strokeassociation.org

American Lung Association
Telephone: 1-800-LUNG-USA (1-800-548-8252)
Internet address: www.lungusa.org

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office on Smoking & Health
Telephone: 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636)
Internet address: www.cdc.gov/tobacco

National Cancer Institute
Cancer Information Service
Telephone: 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237)
Internet address: www.cancer.gov

Nicotine Anonymous
Telephone: 1-877-879-6422
Internet address: www.nicotine-anonymous.org

Smokefree.gov
(Online materials, including info on state telephone-based programs)
Telephone: 1-800-QUITNOW (1-800-784-8669)
Internet address: www.smokefree.gov

Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
Telephone: 1-800-QUITNOW or 1-800-784-8669
Internet address: http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/

Stop Smoking - References