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Quit Smoking Today

Quitting smoking isn't easy. But with help, you and your friends or family can succeed. Once you quit, you reduce your risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke, and diseases that cause breathing problems, such as emphysema. Tobacco use causes many cancer deaths. For that reason, the National Cancer Institute supports research, shares research results, and offers resources to prevent, treat, and reduce tobacco use. We invite you to explore, use, and share some of our resources and research.

Policy Update from the NCI Cancer Bulletin: Each day more than 4,000 children smoke their first cigarette. To combat this problem, the FDA banned cigarettes that taste like candy and fruit.

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You can quit smoking – we can help

Web Sites

Smokefree.gov provides accurate, up-to-date information and professional assistance to help people quit smoking.
- Check out the online quit guide.
- Use interactive tools that can help you quit.

Women.Smokefree.gov offers current, tailored information and professional assistance to help women quit smoking.
- Join Smokefree Women on Facebook.
- Discover your reasons for quitting.

Smoking Cessation Specialists

LiveHelp offers information and advice about quitting smoking through instant messaging with a National Cancer Institute smoking cessation specialist in English, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern Time.
NCI Smoking Quitline (1-877-44U-QUIT or 1-877-448-7848): Call from anywhere in the U.S. to talk to smoking cessation specialists from the National Cancer Institute in English or Spanish, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. local time.

Publications

NCI has many print and online publications to help you quit smoking and to stay smokefree.

Get the facts about tobacco and cancer

Fact sheets about the health hazards of tobacco.
Making a Difference: Nurses Help Cancer Patients Quit Smoking: One of the most cost-effective ways to improve the care of many patients with cancer is to help smokers stop smoking.
Prevention and Cessation of Cigarette Smoking: Control of Tobacco Use (PDQ®) offers information on the effectiveness of counseling methods and drug treatments designed to help smokers quit.
The Smoking Homepage is NCI's gateway to resources and information on tobacco and cancer.

Tobacco research at NCI

NCI-funded clinical trial is first to suggest personalized phone counseling helps teens quit smoking.
Helping Survivors of Childhood Cancer Quit Smoking is a clinical trial on the effectiveness of a tobacco quitline for childhood cancer survivors.
Explore research projects funded by NCI's Tobacco Control Research Branch.
Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND) is an NCI-sponsored network of researchers working to reduce tobacco-related health disparities.
Tobacco Control Monograph Series is an ongoing collection of research about emerging public health issues in smoking and tobacco control.

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