Tobacco Cessation
Healthy Rice County is working to implement mechanisms that connect people who use tobacco with existing cessation services including quit lines, quitting websites, and face to face counseling.
Current Initiatives Include:
- Creating an active referral system of patients to tobacco cessation services
- Working with post-secondary schools and worksites to create tobacco-free policies
- Promotion of effective cessation services available at low or no cost
Resources:
- QUITPLAN Minnesota
- The Minnesota Association for Nonsmokers
- Live Smoke Free - Resources for smoke free housing
- Tobacco Free Youth Recreation and Parks
- District One Hospital
- 4 Corners Partnership Newsletter (Rice, Goodhue, Steele, and Dodge Counties)
- “Ex” Online Quit Smoking Program
- Smoking & Tobacco Use Information
- Guide to Quitting Smoking
- Smokeless Tobacco and How to Quit
- Smoking during pregnancy
- Tobacco Cessation Programs, Services, and Products
Links:
- Rice County Public Health
- Rice County Chemical Health Coalition
- The Four Corners Partnership
- Minnesota Department of Health
- American Lung Association of Minnesota
- Tobacco Law Center of Minnesota
- Freedom to Breathe Act
- Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
- The ”unfiltered” report on Big Tobacco
- “the truth” youth anti-tobacco campaign
- Smoking in your state Interactive Map
- Smoking Cessation Studies
