The Center for Smoking Cessation at Seton Health covers an eight-county region including Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Greene, Columbia, Schoharie, Otsego and Delaware Counties. The Center addresses and treats tobacco dependence to prevent premature death from many chronic conditions including heart disease, stroke, pulmonary diseases and lowers the risk of certain cancers. To combat these diseases, The Center for Smoking Cessation at Seton Health provides educational and supportive programs and services to health care professionals and members of the community.
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The New York State Smokers' Quitline Celebrates Heart Month
The New York State Smokers’ Quitline is partnering with the American Heart Association to provide tobacco users who contact the Quitline in February with a red dress pin or red wristband to honor their commitment to better heart health. The pins and wristbands serve as tangible reminders that not smoking will improve their heart health. The New York State Smokers’ Quitline is funded by the Department of Health’s Tobacco Control Program.
Celebrate Heart Month by quitting smoking!
The New York State Smokers’ Quitline provides free coaching, information and two weeks’ worth of nicotine patches. Further counseling and help is also available in-person at The Center for Smoking Cessation at Seton Health.
The New York State Smokers’ Quitline can be reached at 1-866-NY-QUITS or www.nysmokefree.com.
NEW YORK STATE’S MEDICAID PROGRAM EXPANDS COVERAGE OF SMOKING CESSATION COUNSELING
ALBANY, N.Y. – Effective April 1, 2011, Medicaid expanded coverage of smoking cessation counseling (SCC) to ALL Medicaid enrollees. Each Medicaid enrollee will be allowed 6 counseling sessions during any 12 continuous months which must be provided on a face-to-face basis. Smoking cessation counseling complements the use of prescription and non-prescription smoking cessation products. These products are also covered by Medicaid.
“This is a big deal,” said Michael Seserman, Director of Strategic Health Alliances for the American Cancer Society. “Preventing and reducing tobacco use are the most important public health actions that can be taken to improve the health of New Yorkers, and comprehensive smoking cessation coverage – which includes counseling and medication – works.”
Medicaid is government-funded health care that pays the medical expenses of people who are unable to pay some or all of their own medical expenses. Read more >>
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