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Fax-to-Quit Louisiana Program

Healthcare providers in Louisiana recognize the need to treat patients who use tobacco. They realize that a brief intervention provided in the clinical setting is an effective strategy for helping patients quit tobacco use.

Our Fax-To-Quit Louisiana program follows the recommendations of the U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence which recommends brief counseling in a clinical setting.  When medication is used with counseling, successful quitting is four times more likely.

Fax-To-Quit Louisiana uses the Louisiana Tobacco Quitline to help clinicians provide the counseling component recommended in the guideline easily and seamlessly.

For more information on the Fax-To-Quit Louisiana program, visit Quit With Us, LA

Additional guidelines on treating tobacco use can also be found at the Surgeon General's website.

Smoking Facts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies secondhand smoke as a “Class A” cancer-causing substance, or carcinogen – the same classification assigned to asbestos.

 

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