Resources Regarding Smokeless Tobacco and Quitting

Founded in 1994 as an effort to educate the baseball family and the American public about the dangers of smokeless or spit tobacco, the Oral Health America's National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP) has a wealth of information regarding smokeless tobacco.  There motto is "Smokeless does NOT mean harmless!"  Visit their website at: www.nstep.org

ChewFree.com is part of a research project funded by the National Institutes of Health to help people quit their use of chewing tobacco or snuff.  You will find them at:  www.chewfree.com

ThroughWithChew.com: A resource for tobacco prevention advocates, healthcare providers, and other organizations and individuals who care about tobacco prevention, education, and cessation.

For Blue Cross Blue Shield subscribers, there is an Internet cessation program.  For the Quitline call 1-800-775-2583

For general information on spit tobacco and guide to quitting, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokelesstobacco.html a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

 

 

 

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