You can help smokers quit!

The national Asian Smokers’ Quitline (ASQ) provides culturally and linguistically appropriate telephone counseling for cessation in the three most common Asian languages in the U.S.: Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese communities. ASQ makes evidence-based care accessible to those who are limited in English proficiency. In 2012 the CDC began funding the national ASQ to remedy this disparity in access to care.

Any organization that serves or represents tobacco users has the opportunity to promote cessation, including health departments, employers, labor unions, child care providers, schools, community-based organizations and faith-based organizations.

No matter where you work or volunteer, you can encourage cessation at any level:

• Contact the organizations in your community that may offer free or low cost materials or group programs for smoking cessation including churches, hospitals, the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, and Nicotine Anonymous.
• Host a wellness or health fair for your employees, patients, and/or community members and provide free ASQ promotional materials at the the events
• Conduct co-branded advertising campaigns to consumers and/or providers
• Incentivize employees who don’t smoke with a discount on their annual health insurance and life insurance premiums.
• Proactively refer patients, clients, and members to the ASQ by registering for the ASQ’s web-based referral service.
• Incorporate cessation into your organization’s work plan or scope of work.
• Find out more ideas and ways to promote ASQ

Let us know if you are interested in partnering with ASQ by completing the partnership inquiry