Cessation Services

QUITLINE Iowa

Quitline Iowa is a toll-free, statewide smoking cessation telephone counseling hotline. Trained counselors provide callers assistance in making an individualized quit plan and on-going support through optional follow-up calls.

The Quitline offers both English and Spanish-speaking coaches. Services are available in an additional 150 languages through a translation service. Services are also provided for the hearing impaired (TDD). Services are always free.

Hours of Operation:

• Monday - Thursday 7am to midnight

• Friday 7am to 9pm

• Saturday and Sunday 8am to 7pm

Quitline Iowa Brochure

Clinical Cessation Program

There is a new service to provide free medication and counseling to help you quit tobacco. At over a dozen clinics across Iowa, you can get a 12-week supply of most FDA approved medications, including nicotine patches and Chantix^™. To find a clinic near you, contact the Iowa/Nebraska Primary Care Association at 515-244-9610 or the clinic nearest you.

Participating clinics include:

• Community Health Care, Inc. - Davenport

• Community Health Center of Fort Dodge - Fort Dodge

• Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa, Inc. - Burlington, (Burlington and Keokuk sites)

• Community Health Center of Southern Iowa - Decatur County, (Leon and Lamoni sites)

• Council Bluffs Community Health Center - Council Bluffs

• Crescent Community Health Center - Dubuque

• Linn Community Care - Cedar Rapids

• Peoples Community Health Center, Inc. - Waterloo

• Primary Health Care, Inc. - Des Moines (Des Moines and Marshalltown sites)

• River Hills Community Health Center - Ottumwa

• Siouxland Community Health Center - Sioux City

• United Community Health Center - Storm Lake

Call the nearest clinic for an appointment today!

IANEPC Flyer

Council Bluffs Community Health Center Flyer

QuitSmart

We, the Pottawattamie County Tobacco Prevention Coalition, offer the Quit Smart program. Quit Smart is available in a self-help stop smoking kit and as a four-session quit smoking class that utilizes the kit plus personalized instruction. Quit Smart combines several powerful treatment elements - including hypnosis, medication recommendations and a patented simulated cigarette - to produce a potent stop-smoking treatment. The program was developed by Dr. Robert Shipley, director of the Duke Medical Center Stop Smoking Clinic.

QuitSmart Poster

Tobacco Cessation Reference Sheet:

Below is a list of quitting smoking serivces in the area. For more information you can call the Pottawattamie County Tobacco Prevention Coalition office at 712.325.6831 or email us at adrienne@woh.omhcoxmail.com.

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