Available Tobacco Treatment Resources

Website:  http://www.quitlinems.com/

The Mississippi Tobacco Quitline provides telephone-based treatment to Mississippi residents interested in quitting.

Services Offered:

• Telephone cessation support
• Free Online support
• Referral to local cessation programs (when available)
• Self-help materials
• Nicotine Replacement Therapy assistance (for eligible callers)
• Fax referral program for healthcare providers
• Cessation program options for employers

Hours of Operation:      

• Monday through Thursday – 7 a.m. – 9 p.m.
• Friday – 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.
• Saturday – 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
• Sunday – Voicemail is available

Location/Contact Number:   1-800-QuitNow (1-800-784-8669)

Eligibility Requirements: 18 years of age or older, not have any medical conditions that are contraindications for Nicotine Replacement Therapy usage

Nicotine Replacement Therapy/Pharmacotherapy:  Up to eight weeks of patches or gum.  

Cost:  FREE

Website: http://act2quit.org/
The goal of the ACT Center Tobacco Treatment Program is to help people quit using tobacco and stay quit using a proven, evidence-based approach.
Treatment involves:

• 1 Intake Session, to determine if this is the best program for you, and give you the opportunity to ask questions;
• 6 Treatment Sessions, to get you the help you need, including developing skills to quit and stay quit; and
• Follow-up Sessions, to increase your chances of staying quit permanently.

Location/Contact Number: See locations listed below

Eligibility Requirements: Mississippi resident interested in quitting tobacco use

Nicotine Replacement Therapy/Pharmacotherapy: Yes

Cost: ALL COUNSELING AND MEDICATIONS ARE FREE TO MISSISSIPPI RESIDENTS

The Partnership’s programs reach youth in schools and communities. From kindergarten through the twelfth grade, students learn about the health dangers of tobacco use, enhance their communication skills and build self-esteem that will help
them avoid risky behaviors. The Partnership provides free classroom materials to teachers and other educators, as well as community-based activity guides that can be used in faith-based settings and afterschool programs.

Location/Contact Number:

Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi
200 Park Circle, Suite 3
Flowood, MS 39232

Website:  http://www.gorat.com/

Reject All Tobacco (RAT!)—Program for children in grades K-6 that provides education about the harmful effects of smoking and how to make healthy decisions

The program’s goal is to intervene with pre-emptive information about tobacco dangers and healthy decisions. The program has media campaign and in-school components.

Eligibility Requirements: Students in grades K-6

Website: http://www.generationfree.com/

Generation FREE is a Mississippi youth-led movement against Big Tobacco fueled by teens across the state that lets young people know that they are FREE to be whoever they want to be! Generation FREE is a youth empowerment program that promotes a tobacco-free life to students in grades 7-12.

The program has a media campaign component that reaches youth via television, website, social media, and other communication channels.

Eligibility Requirements: Students in grades 7 – 12

Website:  http://www.lifeofms.com/

Healthy Opportunity for Transition (HOT!) is a LIFE program that provides education and support to help youth with disabilities learn to live independently.

State Office
1304 Vine Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39202
Phone: 601-969-4009 or 1-800-748-9398 (V/TDD)
Counties Served: Hinds, Issaquena, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Rankin, Scott, Sharkey, Warren, Winston, Yazoo

Tupelo Office
1051 Cliff Gookin Blvd, Tupelo, MS 38801
Phone: 662-844-6633 Counties Served: Alcorn, Benton, Chickasaw, Clay, DeSoto, Ittawamba, Lafayette Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Noxubee, Oktibbeha Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo

Greenwood Office
502 – A West Park Avenue, Greenwood, MS 38930
Phone: 662-453-9940 Counties Served: Attala, Bolivar, Carrol, Coahoma, Grenada, Holmes,
Humphreys Leflore, Montgomery, Panola, Quitman, Sunflower,Tallahatchie Tunica, Yalobusha, Washington

Hattiesburg Office
710 Katie Avenue, Hattiesburg, MS 39401
Phone: 601-583-2108 Counties Served: Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Greene, Jasper, Jefferson Davis
Jones, Lamar, Marion, Perry, Smith, Wayne

McComb Office
915-A S. Locust Street, McComb, MS 39648
Phone: 601-684-3079 Counties Served: Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson
Lawrence Lincoln, Pike, Simpson, Walthall, Wilkinson

Biloxi Office
2030 Pass Road, Suite C, Biloxi, MS 39531
Phone: 228-388-2401
Counties Served: George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone

Location/Contact Number:  Augusta Smith – LIFE Assistant Director

1304 Vine St., Jackson, MS 39202

Telephone: 601-969-4009 or

1-800-748-9398 (Voice or TDD)

Institute for Disability Studies (IDS)—Provides programs and connections to resources that can help make life better for Mississippians with disabilities.

Location/Contact Number: Hattiesburg

Phone:  601-266-5163             TTY: 1-(888) 671-0051

Website: http://www.breathehealthy.org

The American Lung Association’s Freedom From Smoking® program is available at community sites throughout Mississippi.
Freedom From Smoking® Online, a program available 24/7 at http://www.ffsonline.org

FFS Online takes you through modules, each containing several lessons that you access through this protected website. These lessons include valuable information and most of them contain an assignment that you are to complete before moving on. The assignments reinforce the messages in each lesson and your commitment to quit.

Location/Contact Number:
American Lung Association – Mississippi
731 S Pear Orchard Rd, Ridgeland, MS 39157
Phone: 601- 206-5810

Website: http://mstatu.org/
TATU is a mentoring program of the American Lung Association. TATU’s main goal is to help teens to stay tobacco-free. This tobacco education program trains teens in grades 7 – 12 to develop strong leadership skills through mentoring, educating, and influencing 4th – 6th grade students. This program provides new and relevant information to teens about tobacco and provides teens with the skills to convey that information to younger children and the community through leadership, peer counseling, mentoring and service hours
Location/Contact Number:
American Lung Association
731 S. Pear Orchard Road, Suite 18
Ridgeland, MS 39157

Office: 601-206-5810
Toll Free: 1-800-586-4872

Eligibility Requirements: Students in grades 7 – 12

The Mississippi Tobacco-Free Coalitions are grassroots groups covering all 82 Mississippi counties. The Coalitions work to reduce tobacco-related disease and death by educating youth about the dangers of tobacco, encouraging communities to implement smoke free ordinances and promoting tobacco cessation services.

Location/Contact Number: See information below

Website: http://www.usm.edu/disability-studies/tobacco-control-strategies-mississippians-disabilities

Tobacco Control Strategies (TCS) for Mississippians with Disabilities—Program at IDS that provides support and education to individuals with disabilities who are interested in quitting

Location/Contact Number:
Hattiesburg
Phone: 601-266-5388

Eligibility Requirements: Interest in quitting tobacco use