Medicare Stop Smoking Program

Alabama

Program Info: 1-866-652-3446

Program Description:                                                             Seniors 65+ living in Alabama may enroll in the Medicare Stop Smoking Program through Sept 2003. Seniors who enroll may be offered one of the following services: counseling, drugs such as the nicotine patch, consumer booklets or a telephone information service. Call 1-866-652-3446 to enroll.

Jennifer Mongoven, MPH    hapadmin@qualidigm.org

Ketchikan General Hospital

3100 Tongass Ave

      Ketchikan, AK 99901

Office phone: (907)-228-7645

Fax: (907)-228-8409

Rebecca Kleinschmidt, BA

rkleinschmidt@peacehealth.org

Tobacco Cessation Coordinator

      13400 East Shea Blvd

Program Description:                                                Full service program focusing on nicotine dependence treatment,
education and research. Treatment program options include outpatient programs, hospital service, & tobacco quitline. For more information call 480-301-4246.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/nicotine-sct/

Melynn Wakeman   wakeman.melynn@mayo.edu

Program Coordinator

Loma Linda University School of Public Health

Foundation for Innovations in Nicotine Dependence (FIND)

Center for Health Promotion

Anderson Avenue

Loma Linda, CA 92354

Program Description:

The Foundation for Innovations in Nicotine Dependence (FIND)

was established as a resource to bring reliable information about

treatment for nicotine dependence to smokers and health 

professionals. FIND’s founder, Linda Hyder Ferry, MD, MPH, 

is an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine

at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. She has extensive

expertise treating "hard core smokers".  Dr. Ferry was the originator 

of the idea of using bupropion (Zyban) to improve smoking cessation

(1991). Her original research on behavioral and medication treatment 

for nicotine dependence has brought her recognition as a leader in the

field of nicotine dependence. 

www.findhelp.com   

Palo Alto Center for Pulmonary

Disease and Prevention

145 North California Avenue

Palo Alto, CA 94301-2540

Program Info: 650-833-7994

Program Description:
The Palo Alto Center for Pulmonary Disease and Prevention offers 

state-of-the-art, medically intensive, individually tailored programs

to treat nicotine/tobacco dependence.  Treatment includes chest x-ray,

EKG, laboratory studies, physical exam, and psychological/behavioral

assessment.  The medical treatment program grows out of twenty years

of research and clinical experience in the field of nicotine/tobacco

dependency.  Medical Director David P.L. Sachs, MD, FCCP, is a

specialist in pulmonary (lung) medicine and internationally recognized 

authority in nicotine/tobacco addiction.

David P.L. Sachs, MD, FCCP 

1515 Scott Street

      Suite 2

San Francisco, CA 94115

 For Program Info: 1-877-822-6786

www.ucsf.edu/nosmoke

Mission Hospital

27700 Medical Center Road

Mission Viejo, CA 92691

Program Description:
Mission Hospital offers FREE smoking cessation services for adults

and youth.  Adult programs include 5-week class series, seminars, 

one-on-one counseling, telephone counseling, and support groups.  

Youth services include class series, seminars, and telephone counseling.

www.mission4health.com   

Center for Appreciative Medicine

335 El Dorado Street

      Suite #6

Monterey, CA 93950

Program Info: 831-647-3190

Terry L. Franklin, MD      TelMD@aol.com

Lisa Dwell, MD

Monique Garcia, NP

John Bennetts, MD

337 El dorado

      Suite B-1

Monterey, CA 93940

Program Info:  831-646-1347

 John Bennetts, MD      john.bennetts@chomp.org

 Medical Director

Jerry Callaway,  MD

2512 Samaritan Ct

      San Jose, CA 95124

Program Info:  408-358-3715

Jerry Callaway, MD      jlcmdlg@aol.com  

Medical Director

Circle Program

Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo

      1600 W. 24th Street

Pueblo, CO 81003

Program info: 719-546-4494                               

Program Description:

20 bed, 90-day, inpatient treatment program for men and women, ages 

18-60, with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse disorders

that  addresses tobacco as seriously and in the same fashion as the 

other drugs of dependence.

Office of Community Medicine

      28 Crescent Street

      Middletown, CT 06457

For Program Info: 860-343-4002

Fax: 860-704-3030

Program Description:
Middlesex offers one-on-one individualized counseling free 

of charge to every smoker in our service area whether inpatient, 

outpatient or in the community.  We offer provider training as well.

www.middlesexhealth.org

Maeve Magee, MS   maeve_magee@midhosp.org

Smoking Intervention Specialist

      Center for Nicotine & Tobacco Use Research at Yale

      CMHC

34 Park Street

S-200

      New Haven, CT 06519

Program Info: 203-974-7588

Fax: 203-974-7594

Stephanie O'Malley, PhD

century@yale.edu

Director

Program description:

Research programs funded by the National Institutes on Health are

available to help you quit smoking. We provide medications and 

counseling. All research programs are provided free of charge to 

qualified individuals. Our clinic is located in New Haven with easy 

access from I-95 (exit 46) and free parking.

www.info.med.yale.edu/century

Florida Hospital                                                Break the Chain-Celebration

Celebration Health

      Respiratory Department

      400 Celebration Place

     Celebration, FL 34747

For Program Info: 407-303-4522

Program Description:

Florida Hospital has put the power to stop smoking right in your 

hands, with Break the Chain—a comprehensive stop-smoking 

program customized to work with your individual needs. This 

one-of-a kind program incorporates some of the most aggressive 

treatment options—options that you and a smoking cessation 

specialist will go over together. You can decide what will work 

best for your individual lifestyle needs.  Never think that it is too 

late, or you're too old, or the damage is already done, so quitting 

smoking won't do any good. It is never too late to quit! You can 

quit now.

www.flhosp.org/services/breakchain/

Ed Fluker, RRT

Florida Hospital                                                 Break the Chain-Orlando

Florida Hospital – Orlando Main Campus

      601 East Rollins Street

      Orlando, Florida 32803

For Program Info: 407-303-4522

Program Description:

Florida Hospital has put the power to stop smoking right in your 

hands, with Break the Chain—a comprehensive stop-smoking 

program customized to work with your individual needs. This 

one-of-a kind program incorporates some of the most aggressive 

treatment options—options that you and a smoking cessation 

specialist will go over together. You can decide what will work 

best for your individual lifestyle needs.  Never think that it is too 

late, or you're too old, or the damage is already done, so quitting 

smoking won't do any good. It is never too late to quit! You can 

quit now.

www.flhosp.org/services/breakchain/

Ed Fluker, RRT

4500 San Pablo Road

Jacksonville, FL 32224