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
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
- Tobacco cessation counseling and medications provided at all VA medical centers
- Learn more about the Kansas City VA Medical Center's Quit Tobacco Clinic.
- VA's tobacco quitline, in English and Spanish. Call 1-855-QUIT-VET (1-855-784-8838) between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday
- VA's quit tobacco text messaging program. Text VET to 47848 or visit smokefree.gov/VET to sign up for SmokefreeVET in English. For Spanish, text VETesp to 47848
- TRICARE covers tobacco cessation counseling from TRICARE-authorized providers in the United States.
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- Mandarin & Cantonese, 1-800-838-8917, www.asq-chinese.org
- Korean, 1-800-556-5564, www.asq-korean.org
- Vietnamese, 1-800-778-8440, www.asq-viet.org
- To learn more about ASQ (in English), visit www.asiansmokersquitline.org.
Internet Support
- Become An Ex
- Smokefree.gov
- QuitSmokeless
- Kansas Department of Health
- Missouri Department of Social Services
- American Lung Association
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association
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
- UKanQuit booklet, Tobacco Cessation Tools for our Patients (English)
- UKanQuit booklet, Tobacco Cessation Tools for our Patients (Spanish)
- UKanQuit brochure (English)
- UKanQuit brochure (Spanish)
University of Kansas Medical Center Smoking Policies
- Tobacco Products, Policy on Sale of (All-University)
The University of Kansas prohibits the sale of all tobacco products in facilities owned or operated by the University of Kansas and its affiliated corporations and by any organization or person on the premises of the University of Kansas. - KUMC Smoking, Tobacco Use and Electronic Cigarette Use Policy
Smoking, the use of tobacco products and electronic cigarettes are not permitted in any facility or on any part of the Medical Center's campuses.