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Malcom Randall VA Medical Center
Services and information available to help veterans and Veteran Affairs employees to adopt a tobacco free life.
352-376-1611 x4499
1601 SW Archer Road
Gainesville, FL 32608
Healthy Start of Alachua County
The Healthy Start Tobacco Cessation resource is available for those enrolled in Healthy Start. Individual counseling is also available through this service.
Kasey Brooks
kasey.brooks@kidscentralinc.org
1-877-678-9355
204 W. University Ave., Ste. 3
Gainesville, FL 32601
GatorWell Health Promotion Services (AHEC)
GatorWell offers the Quit Program in partnership with the Student Health Care Center, the University of Florida Area Health Education Centers, and the Florida Department of Health. Through the program, currently enrolled UF students can receive various coaching and medications. Telephone and individual counseling available.
352-273-5224
3190 Radio Road
Gainesville, FL 32611
Suwannee River Area Health Education Center (AHEC)
Suwannee River AHEC provides the Group Quit option of Tobacco Free Florida’s Quit Your Way Program. Group Quit helps people quit all types of tobacco—cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, pipes, and others—in Suwannee River AHEC’s twelve county service area of Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Marion, Putnam, Suwannee, and Union counties.
The Group Quit program offers two types of groups: a one-time 2-hour group and a multi-session group held once a week for four weeks. Both programs are free and participants receive up to four weeks of free nicotine patches, gum, or lozenges. Call toll free 866-341-2730 or visitwww.ahectobacc.com for details about upcoming groups.
Suwannee River AHEC also provides free tobacco cessation trainings for healthcare professionals and healthcare professional students.
386-462-1551
14646 NW 151st Blvd.
Alachua, FL 32615
Florida Quitline
Tobacco Free Florida offers a number of free and convenient resources to help tobacco users quit. The Florida Quitline and Web Coach are available 24 hours per day, seven days a week. Florida Residents 11 and older may use the quitline. Services are also available for hearing impaired.
Multilingual telephone counseling
1-877-822-6669
AHEC “Quit Smoking Now”
The Florida Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network offers tobacco cessation classes called “Quit Smoking Now” throughout the state. See what’s happening in your county by visiting their online calendar.
1-87-QUIT-NOW-6 (1-877-848-6696)
Smokefree.gov
A website created by the National Cancer Institute to provide assistance to quit smoking. Provides a step-by-step guide to quit and other online resources.
1-877-44U-QUIT (1-877-448-7848)
Quit for Life
The Quit For Life® Program is a collaboration between the American Cancer Society and Alere Wellbeing. The program helps people quit tobacco use by providing: *Up to 5 coaching calls and access to a Quit Coach *Access to Web Coach, an interactive, online community that offers e-learning tools, social support and information about quitting.
American Lung Association
Freedom From Smoking® is a free online quit program for adults that teaches the skills and techniques necessary to quit smoking. It is also available as a group clinic, an online program and a self-help book. Cessation counselors also available at the Lung HelpLine.
1-800-LUNGUSA
American Cancer Society National Cancer Information Center (NCIC): Support
The American Cancer Society NCIC: Support provides articles on smoking cessation and quitting tips. Free brochures are available. The American Cancer Society is also a sponsor of A Great American Smoke-Out.
1-800-227-2345
