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Table 1 State and State Tobacco Cessation Program Summary Descriptions

From: Replicating state Quitline innovations to increase reach: findings from three states

 

Minnesota

Oklahoma

Florida

Population (2017)a

5,568,155

3,932,640

20,976,812

Smoking prevalence (2017)b

14.5%

20.1%

16.1%

Smokeless tobacco use prevalence (2017)b

4.8%

7.4%

2.7%

State tobacco cessation program summary description

QUITPLAN® Helpline – up to five telephone counseling calls, four weeks of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) (combination NRT option), integrated text and email messaging, print materials.

Individual QUITPLAN® Services – choice of two week “starter kit” of NRT (monotherapy only), standalone text messaging program, standalone email program, and/or printed quit guide.

quitplan.com – unlimited access to self-directed website offered during the pre period only. (No NRT provided) (Program ended February 2014)

Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline- All Access: All callers receive one coaching call, at least 2 weeks of NRT (patches, gum or lozenges), print materials, integrated text, web coach. Uninsured, Medicare, IHS participants are eligible for 8 weeks of combination NRT (patches, gum or lozenges) and 5 calls with a quit coach.

Web Coach – unlimited access to self-directed website, receive 2 weeks of NRT, emails, text, printed materials.

Individual Services – choice of two week “starter kit” of NRT (monotherapy only), standalone text messaging program, standalone email program, and/or printed quit guide.

Quit Your Way – Phone Quit: up to three telephone counseling calls, two weeks of NRT (combination NRT option), integrated text and email messaging, integrated web coach messaging, printed quit guide.

Web Quit: unlimited access to self-directed website, two weeks of NRT (combination NRT option), optional text and email messaging.

Individual Quit Your Way services -

choice of two week “starter kit” of NRT (monotherapy only), standalone text messaging program, standalone email program and/or printed quit guide.

Program eligibility criteria

QUITPLAN Helpline:– uninsured and underinsuredc Minnesotans age 13 years and older.

-must be 18 years or older to receive NRT and text messaging.

-can enroll twice in a 12-month period.

Individual QUITPLAN Services:

– all Minnesotans age 13 years and older.

-must be 18 years or older to receive NRT and text messaging.

-can receive two NRT “starter kits”, and all other services once, in a 12-month period.

All Oklahomans age 13 years and older are eligible for some level of services. NRT is provided only to those 18 years and older. Cost sharing partnerships with Medicaid and other private partners increase the number of calls and/or other services available to members.

Oklahomans can enroll twice in all services in a 12-month period.

Services are open to all Floridians. NRT is provided only to those 18 years and older; other services available to those 13 years or older.

Floridians can enroll twice in all services in a 12-month period.

  1. aU.S. Census Bureau, https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-state-total.html
  2. bBehavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/brfssprevalence/
  3. cSelf-reported lack of insurance coverage for telephone counseling and/or nicotine replacement therapy