Menu
Tobacco-Free Community Partnerships (TFCPs) are funded by the Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention program to support communities’ efforts to help people quit using tobacco, prevent youth from starting, and protect everyone from secondhand smoke. TFCPs educate local groups on tobacco issues and work with tobacco control programs at municipal Boards of Health to support tobacco-related health regulations. Each Community Partnership program is part of a statewide network of programs that work to enhance state and local tobacco control efforts, mobilize support for community change, and highlight work being done in the community to support tobacco-free living.
If you are a smoker, quitting is the single most important step you can take to protect your health and the health of your loved ones.
Having a plan makes it easier to quit. Set a date to quit smoking and get your friends and family prepared to support you. If you want to quit and you’ve already tried in the past, don’t give up. It takes most smokers several tries before they can quit for good.
Quitting can be hard, but with planning and support you can free yourself from this addiction.
The Massachusetts Smokers’ Helpline, 1-800-QUIT NOW (1-800-784-8669), is available to help coach and support you through quitting, and it’s free. Talk to your doctor about quit-smoking medicines that might work for you; most insurance, including MassHealth, covers these medicines. Using coaching and quit-smoking medicines together can make you three times as likely to quit for good.
If you want to quit and you’ve already tried in the past, don’t give up. It takes most smokers several tries before they can quit for good. You can do it!
1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)
Free telephone-based counseling and advice are available in English and Spanish, with translations for other languages.
413-854-9929
Great Barrington: Fairview Hospital
CDC support includes Smokefree TXT: a mobile texting service designed to provide 24/7 encouragement, tips, and advice to help smokers quit and stay quit.
NCI’s LiveHelp Service: Live online information and advice about quitting smoking through real-time instant messaging. https://livehelp.cancer.gov/app/chat/chat_launch
NCI QuitPal: a free phone app that provides tools to help those who want to be smoke-free with research-based strategies.
1-800-841-2900 (TTY: 1-800-497-4684)
Tobacco cessation counseling is free and MassHealth has eliminated co-pays on products that help people quit smoking, including nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) like gum, patches, and lozenges.
Leading the fight to reduce tobacco use and its deadly toll in the United States and around the world.
Youth fighting for a tobacco-free generation in Massachusetts.
Advocates for policies and resources that prevent tobacco use and nicotine addiction.
Free support is available at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669).
Includes QuitSTART: a free phone app to help track cravings, and moods, and monitor progress toward smokefree milestones.
This is Quitting powered by truth® is a free and confidential texting program for young people who vape. Text “VapeFreeMass” to 88709. In partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
My Life, My Quit has youth coach specialists trained to help young people by phone or text. Young people can call or text “Start My Quit” to 855-891-9989 for free and confidential help
