Resources
The Indiana Tobacco Quitline
The Indiana Tobacco Quitline is a telephone-based cessation service designed to help all Indiana tobacco users.
The Indiana Tobacco Quitline assists:
- Tobacco users, in any stage of readiness, to quit
- Pregnant smokers
- Smokeless tobacco users
- Former smokers who want relapse prevention support
- Friends and relatives of tobacco users who want to offer support
Health Care Providers
Healthcare providers play a key role in reducing our state’s adult smoking rate.
They often have the opportunity to intervene by identifying tobacco use and encouraging cessation.
Tobacco users are 2.5 times more likely to quit if their healthcare provider advises them to quit. Providers have established credibility with patients. Forty-nine percent want to quit because a healthcare provider told them to do so.
Indiana Tobacco Quitline Preferred Network Program
Employers
If you could have a safer, cleaner, and healthier workplace, would you? If you could cut health care costs and reduce productivity losses to illness, would you? Making your business smoke-free saves lives and saves you money.
Indiana employers are impacted greatly by the burden of tobacco use. The average annual healthcare cost associated with tobacco use in Indiana is $2.2 billion; plus the average annual cost burden due to lost productivity related to smoking in Indiana is $2.6 billion.
Indiana Tobacco Quitline Preferred Network Program for Employers
