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The average person who smokes makes several quit attempts before they successfully beat the addiction. MD Anderson tackles the barriers to cessation at an individual and population level. Those barriers include access to cessation services, cost and knowledge gaps among health care providers on treating tobacco addiction.

Clinical and community-based services include adult cessation programs that include pharmacotherapy, counseling and quit-lines that offer follow-up. Community-based cessation services meet the patient where they are so that they can discuss their options to quitting, create a quit plan and take steps to quit.

Training Health Care Providers

MD Anderson¡¯s Tobacco Treatment Training Program offers a training for health care providers to treat tobacco dependence. To date, we have trained more than 1,400 from across the United States and seven other countries.

Through Project TEACH ECHO, network connects with more than 500 health care providers nationwide and globally to increase provider knowledge and skills to treat tobacco and nicotine addiction among the patients and communities they serve.

Transforming Clinics to Support Communities

MD Anderson¡¯s Tobacco Cessation Clinic Enhancement Program works with clinics that serve underinsured and underserved populations, creating tobacco-free cultures within these clinics. By providing staff training and evidence-based resources, this program enables clinics to offer the support patients need to quit.

Helping Young People Quit Vaping and Tobacco

, a text message quit-vaping program designed for young people, is developed by Truth Initiative with the Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center. The program is tailored to provide a personalized experience based on age, enrollment date or quit date, and tobacco product type. Anyone ages 13 and older can text VAPEFREETX to 88709 to enroll. If you would like to receive materials to promote This Is Quitting, complete this .

MD Anderson, alongside 20 public health, medical and government organizations, created a of tools and resources for those seeking to help youth quit tobacco use. Through this webpage, parents, educators, health care professionals and others who work with young people can find the latest information, resources and programs created specifically for youth tobacco cessation.