Services For Your Patients

QuitWorks-NH offers multiple services to all tobacco users, whether they are thinking about quitting, they are ready to make a quit attempt, or have already quit and are seeking help to stay quit. Here is what your patients are offered:

Up to five calls to make contact with your patient
Intake, assessment and brief motivational call
Five telephone-based counseling sessions. QuitNow-NH, funded by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, provides the QuitWorks-NH counseling services.
Enrollment in an interactive website for a person who uses tobacco (quitnownh.org)
Tailored print materials
Follow-up calls at seven months
Nicotine Replacement Therapy in the form of the patch
Customized text services and reminders
An online community of people quitting tobacco use

Telephone Counseling Calls

QuitNow-NH offers evidence-based, multi-session telephone counseling protocols.

Session	Schedule	Objectives
1	Immediately following intake call to 1 – 7 days after, scheduled per caller convenience	• Establish rapport • Determine reasons for smoking, reasons for quitting, and concerns about quitting • Discuss nicotine addiction • Answer questions, concerns regarding quit date
2	OPTIMAL: 2 days before quit date RANGE: 1 – 3 days before quit date	• Aid caller in preparation for quit day • Assess status of stop-smoking medications and discuss further if needed • Discuss and practice thought and action strategies
3	OPTIMAL: 1 day after quit date RANGE: 1 – 2 days after quit date	• Assess quit status and emotional state • Conduct appropriate session based upon caller’s quit status • Assess caller’s use of quit strategies and stop-smoking medications • Plan for handling future tough situations that will come up in the next week
4	OPTIMAL: 7 days after Session 3 RANGE: 5 – 9 days after Session 3	• Assess quit status, emotional state, and use of stop-smoking medications • Assess caller’s motivation to remain a non-smoker • Plan for handling future tough situations that will come up in the next week • Reinforce caller for their success
5	OPTIMAL: 14 days after Session 3 RANGE: 12 – 16 days after Session 3	• Assess quit status, emotional state, and use of stop-smoking medications • Assess caller’s motivation to remain a non-smoker • Remind caller to prepare to cope with urges to smoke in advance; plan for action and thought strategies, and do mental rehearsals of them • Reinforce caller for their success

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