Smoking and using tobacco accounts for up to one in three of all cancer-related deaths in the United States. MD Anderson is committed to ending tobacco use.
MD Anderson is a leader in tobacco control, nationwide. We provide services directly to smokers who want to quit, to schools so they can make sure children never start, and to health care providers who want to eliminate tobacco use in their communities. MD Anderson also collaborates with institutions and policy makers across the United States in a movement to end tobacco use, once and for all.
MD Anderson can help you quit smoking
Stopping smoking is the most important thing you can do for your health. Quitting at any age reduces your risk for health problems including cancer, heart disease and stroke. MD Anderson offers services proven to help you stop.
Get more information and resources to help you quit.
Tobacco Research and Treatment Program
If you are a cancer patient, quitting smoking improves your chances of surviving cancer. MD Anderson's Tobacco Research and Treatment Program (TRTP) offers free tobacco cessation services to patients and includes in-person, phone and video counseling. Patients also have access to several tobacco cessation medications.
Tobacco Research Program
MD Anderson has studies available for people who smoke and are interested in quitting, as well as for people who may not be ready to stop smoking yet. Our studies aim to learn more about why people smoke and the best ways to quit.
Visit the program website and complete the online questionnaire.
The benefits of quitting smoking
Tobacco resources for educators
MD Anderson offers several programs for school-age children, teens and young adults.
ASPIRE (A Smoking Prevention Interactive Experience)
ASPIRE is a free online program for teens that tackles the big issues about tobacco, including e-cigarettes, hookah, JUUL and synthetic marijuana.
EX Program
In collaboration with the nationally renowned Truth Initiative, MD Anderson offers a text message quit-vaping service to help anyone ages 13 or older quit tobacco products including vapes. EX Program provides a personalized experience based on age, tobacco product type, enrollment date or quit date. Text VAPEFREETX to 88709 to enroll. People using EX Program can also receive mental health support including mindfulness training and self-care prompts, breathing training, and access to a text-based mental health crisis intervention program called Crisis Text Line.
Tobacco education presentations
MD Anderson health educators visit schools, either in-person or virtually, to arm young people with the facts on tobacco and vaping and provide tools to resist peer pressure. A puppet show is available for younger audiences, which breaks down this complex subject in a fun and entertaining way for kids in kindergarten through 4th grade.
Did You Know?
To date, MD Anderson has provided tobacco education to 1,134 schools across the United States.
Protect your kids from tobacco
MD Anderson can help you keep your child away from tobacco. Find out what to know about vaping, e-cigarettes and other forms of tobacco, plus information on support services available to you and your children.
Learn more to help your family stay tobacco freeTobacco training programs and resources for health care providers
MD Anderson has training available to help you support your patients on their journey to becoming tobacco free.
Project ECHO TEACH is a telementoring service that provides tobacco education, consulting and cessation strategies to clinical providers across the United States.
Certified Tobacco Treatment Training Program. If you want to become a certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist, join MD Anderson’s five-day intensive training program, certified by the Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs.
Tobacco Outreach Education Program. MD Anderson offers free continuing medical education materials to help physicians counsel patients on the benefits of smoking prevention and cessation.
Quitline. If you are a Federally Qualified Health Center, collaborate with us to connect your patients to the MD Anderson Quitline. This enhanced service offers patients free access to one-on-one counseling and extended nicotine replacement therapy.
Tobacco Statistics
480K
Americans die from smoking each year
2M
teens report using e-cigarettes in the last 30 days
25%
non-smoking Americans exposed to secondhand smoke
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