Get Quit Smoking Support and Encouragement

Studies have shown that you have a better chance of being successful if you have help. You can get stop smoking support in many ways:

- Websites offering support and online programs

- Friends and loved ones

- Smoking aids such as Nicorette or a smoking patch

- Therapy, including hypnosis

- Local smoking groups, and programs

Women Against Tobacco

The Tobacco Control and Prevention Project began in 1994 and is a collaborative agreement with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The objective of CDC's Tobacco Control and Prevention Project partnership with the American Medical Women's Association is to empower individual women and women's organizations to recognize the dangers of tobacco use and to take a leadership role in helping the global community of women and girls lead tobacco-free lives.

Freedom From Smoking® Clinic for Stop Smoking Programs

Freedom From Smoking® is an eight-session group stop smoking program led by experts who understand your motivations and rationalizations about continuing to smoke.

The program uses a positive behavior change approach that teaches you how to become a non-smoker. This program also offers an online version.

You can also find many online help groups, quit smoking programs, and other support through places like the American Lung Association.

Great American Smokeout

The Great American Smokeout is a yearly event held in Novemember by the American Cancer Society were the idea is to be smoke free for an entire day, hopefully turning it into leading a smoke-free life.

Not-On Tobacco-For Teens

Not-On-Tobacco or N-O-T is the American Lung Association´s newest tool to help teens quit smoking. Here´s an outline of how N-O-T works:


- Offers 10 sessions and 4 optional booster sessions through voluntary participation.

- Designed to help teens quit smoking or reduce their smoking.

- Includes selection criteria for facilitators such as a nonjudgmental approach to teens.

- Provides comprehensive facilitator training in addiction, curriculum content and implementation, referral for other help and group process.

- Is gender specific.

- Includes life skills management traiing such as stress management.

- Designed and tested specifically for teens.

- Based on solid research in 15 sites nationwide.

- Includes built-in evaluation component for local tracking.

- Meets CDC Guidelines for School Health Programs.

- Includes a supplemental Alternqative-to-Suspension program for school tobacco violations.

Get Professional Help To Quit

If the idea of becoming a non smoker is overwhelming, and you simply cannot get yourself motivated enough to quit, or if you have made multiple attempts to quit and have failed it is a good idea to seek professional help.

Professional help can provide you the tools for a successful attempt at quitting. A good place to start is with your physician, but there are specialists that can help you as well.

Kick Butts Day

Kick Butts Day is an annual initiative that encourages activism and leadership among elementary, middle and high school students. It´s the day America´s kids stand up to tobacco and America´s adults stand up for kids. Every year young people find new and creative ways to fight youth tobacco use in their communities and carry out hundreds of activities nationwide as well as around the world. Kick Butts Day rallies and events take place in every state, and several nations, showing that kids are powerful voices in the fight against tobacco.