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Resources for Patients

Good Rx prescription assistance card may provide discount coupons for smoking cessation medications as well as other prescriptions.

Telephone Support

  • Each state has a telephone Quitline.
  • Services are free.
  • Call the 24-hour toll-free number 1-800-784-8669 (800-QUIT-NOW).
    If you have an area code from a different state than your home address, use the numbers below:
    • Kansas residents with out-of-state area code call: 1-855-613-7848
    • Missouri residents with out-of-state area code call: 1-866-784-8454
  • Additional information about the Missouri and Kansas programs is available on the websites below:

Text Support

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Sign up from your mobile phone! Send a text message with the word QUIT to 47848, answer a few questions, and you'll start receiving text messages from SmokefreeTXT. You may also visit the smokefreeTXT website for more information and to sign up.

Group Support

  • Tobacco Cessation group is available FREE to our patients currently by zoom or phone. Sessions are on-going session, start any time.
  • To register call 913-945-7534 or at www.bit.ly/MCATobaccoCessation

Veteran/Military Support

Asian Support

  • The Asia Smokers' Quitline (ASQ) provides FREE, accessible, evidence-based smoking cessation services in Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and Vietnamese to Asians in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Services are provided by native speakers trained in smoking cessation. Eligible callers receive a free two-week starter kit of nicotine patches.
    ASQ is open Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pacific Time
  • To learn more about ASQ (in English), visit www.asiansmokersquitline.org.

Internet Support

Quit-Smoking Medication Assistance

  • Many insurance plans, including Medicare, cover one or more types of quit smoking medications. Kansas and Missouri Medicaid cover quit-tobacco medications. Refer this table of insurance coverage for tobacco cessation programs. 
  • For those without insurance:
    • PfizerRxPathways may assist or pay for Chantix or the Nicotrol Inhaler (Enter Chantix or Nicotrol in the search by medicine box).
    • Good Rx prescription assistance card may provide discount coupons for smoking cessation medications as well as other prescriptions.

UKanQuit Materials

University of Kansas Medical Center Smoking Policies

School of Medicine

UKanQuit
Department of Population Health
University of Kansas Medical Center
4125 Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City, KS 66160

913-317-6931
UKanQuit@kumc.edu