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Personalized Online Support to Help You Quit Smoking
Connect online with a licensed healthcare provider to discuss your smoking pattern, previous quit attempts, health history, medications, and goals. Your provider can help you build a personalized quit plan and discuss evidence-based counseling and medication options when medically appropriate. Start Your Quit-Smoking Consultation
Online Smoking Cessation Consultation — $129
Discuss your quit-smoking goals, previous attempts, cravings, and treatment preferences with a licensed healthcare provider. You can review counseling strategies, nicotine replacement options, and prescription treatment when medically appropriate.
Quitting Smoking
Is Hard
Nicotine dependence can cause strong cravings and withdrawal symptoms that make quitting difficult. A personalized quit plan can combine behavioral support with medication when appropriate. A licensed healthcare provider can help you choose strategies based on your health history, smoking pattern, previous quit attempts, and goals.
Nicotine withdrawal can cause strong cravings, restlessness, difficulty concentrating, sleep problems, and increased appetite. Symptoms vary from person to person and usually become easier to manage over time.
Mood changes can occur while your body adjusts to being without nicotine. Irritability, anxiety, feeling down, and difficulty concentrating are common withdrawal experiences, especially early in a quit attempt.
Smoking can contribute to coughing, shortness of breath, reduced exercise tolerance, and fatigue. It also exposes the heart, blood vessels, and lungs to harmful chemicals each time you smoke.
Triggers & Habits
Smoking can become linked to routines such as drinking coffee, driving, taking breaks, social situations, or coping with stress. Identifying your triggers and planning alternative responses can make cravings easier to manage.
Long-Term Effects
Long-term cigarette smoking increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), several cancers, and type 2 diabetes, among other conditions.
Other Health Risks
Smoking can also affect oral health, fertility and pregnancy outcomes, the immune system, and eye health. Secondhand smoke can harm people around you as well.
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Meet Your Provider
Meet online with a licensed healthcare provider who will review your health history, smoking pattern, previous quit attempts, medications, and quit-smoking goals. When medically appropriate, your provider can recommend a treatment plan and may prescribe an appropriate smoking-cessation medication.
Meet A ProviderBenefits of Smoking
Cessation
Health benefits begin after your last cigarette and continue to build over time, regardless of how long you have smoked.
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Coughing and shortness of breath can decrease over the months after quitting.
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Improve circulation and reduce the strain smoking places on your heart and blood vessels.
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Improve your sense of taste and smell as your body recovers from smoke exposure.
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Lower your risk of heart attack, coronary heart disease, and stroke over time.
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Reduce the risk of smoking-related cancers, chronic lung disease, and premature death.
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Protect people around you by eliminating their exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke.
Build a Quit Plan
That Fits You
A licensed healthcare provider can help you build a quit plan based on your health history, current medications, smoking pattern, previous quit attempts, and preferences. Evidence-based treatment may include behavioral support, nicotine replacement therapy, and prescription medication when appropriate.
- • Review nicotine replacement therapy options such as patches, gum, or lozenges, and discuss whether a single product or a combination approach may be appropriate for you.
- • Learn practical strategies to identify and manage smoking triggers.
- • Discuss FDA-approved prescription options such as varenicline or bupropion when medically appropriate.
- • Create a personalized plan that considers previous quit attempts, triggers, withdrawal symptoms, medication preferences, and your target quit date.
- • Plan follow-up when appropriate to review cravings, medication response, side effects, slips or relapses, and whether the quit plan needs adjustment.
- • Use practical coping strategies and additional support resources, such as the free 1-800-QUIT-NOW quitline, when helpful.
Smoking Cessation FAQs
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Start Your Personalized Quit-Smoking Plan Today
Connect online with a licensed healthcare provider to discuss your quit-smoking goals, previous attempts, treatment options, and follow-up needs. Your plan can be adjusted over time based on your progress and response to treatment.