Help Quitting
Support for ALL students, faculty and staff
You’re much more likely to quit when you get help and support from a trained coach or counselor. Here are some ways they can help:
- Individualized phone, email and text support
- Face-to-face counseling or a visit with your doctor
- Cessation groups
- Nicotine Replacement Therapies
Tobacco Cessation Health Coverage in Minnesota 2019 (PDF)
Resources to help you quit
Student Health Services
Minnesota State University, Mankato Health Education Office (100 Carkoski Commons) provides free quit kits for students, faculty and staff
- Students can pick up at the Health Education Office
- Faculty and Staff can request via email to be delivered via intracampus mail or delivered to your office
Lower-cost nicotine replacement therapies are available for students to purchase at the Student Health Services Pharmacy.
QUITPLAN
Everyone in Minnesota has access to free phone coaching to quit tobacco, even if you're uninsured.
Call QUITPLAN at 1-888-354-7526
Blue Cross Members
1-888-662-BLUE
Health Partners Members
1-800-311-1052
Preferred One Members
1-800-292-2336
Freedom From Smoking
The American Lung Association’s free quit smoking program
www.ffsonline.org
American Cancer Society
24 hour phone counseling, 7 days a week
www.cancer.org
QuitNet
A free quit smoking program
www.quitnet.com
SmokeFree.gov
State and National resources, free materials, and beneficial quitting advice
www.smokefree.gov
Quitza.com
A smoke free social network designed to help people quit smoking. Features online social support, personalized goal and progress tracking technologies.
https://quitza.com/forum
Quitting e-cigarettes
This innovative and free text message program was created with input from teens, college students and young adults who have attempted to, or successfully, quit e-cigarettes.
https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/quitting-smoking-vaping/quitting-e-cigarettes
