Tobacco Information for Providers

The Tobacco Control Program works with partners to carry out quitting programs. Resources available to patients include:

• Telephone support: our Quitline at 1-800-QUIT-NOW directs smokers or those who care about smokers to the quitting program that will work best for them or their loved ones.
• Quitworks: a free, evidence-based stop-smoking service developed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in collaboration with all major health plans in Massachusetts.
• Online cessation support: smokers ready to make a quit attempt can find online smoking cessation support at QuitNowRI.
  

All health plans in Rhode Island now cover cessation services, outpatient counseling and nicotine replacement therapy. Patients should contact their insurance providers for more information on coverage. Rhode Island also has a tobacco treatment program for the uninsured.