NYS Smokers’ Quitline Online and Fax-to-Quit Referral Program

Refer-To-Quit Program

Online and Fax-To-Quit referral program

The New York State Smokers’ Quitline offers its Refer-to-Quit program for health care providers to help their patients stop-smoking. As a confidential service, we offer counseling and cessation-related services to patients who use tobacco products.

How Refer-to-Quit Works:

1. Health care providers can refer their tobacco-using patients to the New York State Smokers’ Quitline using the Refer-to-Quit fax referral form or using our online referral program.

2.  Refer-to-Quit procedures. 

3. Patients will receive a follow-up call from a Quit Coach who will provide a stop-smoking or stop-smokeless-tobacco counseling session. 

4. Patients will receive a Stop-Smoking or Stop-Smokeless-Tobacco packet in the mail with information tailored to their specific situation and a listing of local stop-smoking programs. 

5. A sample progress report (feedback form) with information about the patient’s tobacco-use status will be faxed back to the health care provider from the Quitline. 

6. Patients can be referred to the New York State Smokers’ Quitline as often as needed. 

7. Patients can call the New York State Smokers’ Quitline as often as needed. 

8. There is no limit to the number of patients a health care provider may refer.

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