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GET HELP QUITTING

 

FREE Cessation help for South Carolinians!

Are you thinking about quitting smoking?  Have you already decided or tried before and not been successful?  South Carolina residents have a great resource called The South Caroline Tobacco Quitline.  The Quitline is a free service that offers help when quitting tobacco use.  The help ranges from phone and internet counseling to free nicotine gum, patches or lozenges.  The calls are confidential and the Quit Coaches are highly trained to work with you to develop a personal plan that will work!  

Call the Quitline today!

• The South Carolina Tobacco Quitline is a free comprehensive tobacco treatment service featuring phone and Internet counseling.

• Currently, 29 percent of Horry County adults smoke, which is above the state rate of 20.4 percent and the 17.9 percent national average.

• One of Smoke Free Horry’s primary goals is to help residents successfully quit smoking.

• The Quitline is a one-on-one approach to cessation counseling, where each caller is assigned to a personal Quit Coach who will work with the participant throughout the quitting process.

• The South Carolina Tobacco Quitline features a program that is science-based and has been clinically proven to help participants quit smoking and stay quit for the long-term.

• Currently, all Horry County residents are eligible for free quit smoking services from the South Carolina Tobacco Quitline. This includes phone counseling support sessions as well as nicotine gum, patches or lozenges. 

• The South Carolina Tobacco Quitline services are available from 8 a.m. to 3 a.m., seven days a week for any South Carolina resident 13 years of age and older.

• After the initial call, participants work with their Quit Coaches to schedule subsequent sessions. The Quit Coach will then call the participant at agreed-upon times and dates. Of course, participants are free to call between scheduled sessions if they need extra support.

• The program prioritizes services for those most in need of cessation help. It offers the most comprehensive services to uninsured callers, Medicaid patients, pregnant women and youth appointed by the courts. All callers are eligible for a one-call counseling session. Those in the above priority groups are eligible for a five-call counseling program. 

• The Quitline also directs all callers to local cessation resources.

• Through the Provider Fax Referral program, smokers and tobacco chewers no longer have to take the often difficult first step of calling the Quitline; instead, after talking with their healthcare provider, patients agree to have the Quitline call them.

• The patient completes a fax referral form with assistance from a doctor, nurse or another staff member in the clinic setting.

• The form must be signed by the patient/tobacco user and must contain a current phone number. The Quitline makes up to three attempts to reach the tobacco user. After contacting the patient or after the third attempt, the Quitline will fax the clinic a report (to be filed in the patient’s chart at the clinic), detailing the outcome of the outreach.