[On the Phone]

If you're trying to quit smoking, we're all ears. The Try-To-STOP TOBACCO Resource Center offers free and confidential telephone services for the residents of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. We offer information, over-the-phone counseling and referrals to local tobacco treatment centers.

  • Screening & Information: We help you to think about how and why you smoke and review your quitting history. We focus on nicotine as an addiction and help you to assess where you are in the "stages of change." Based on this information, we talk with you about appropriate "next steps" that can work just for you. We answer your questions about how to quit, withdrawal symptoms, the health consequences of smoking.
  • Referral: We can refer you to tobacco treatment programs in your area, as well as other health-related organizations.
  • Tobacco Treatment Counseling: We offer free and confidential tobacco treatment counseling over the telephone with appointments at times convenient for you.
  • Self-Help Materials: We send out written information about tobacco use, methods for quitting and a workbook on how to quit. We also have information about secondhand smoke.
  • Quit Tips Line: Pre-recorded messages with motivational content if you are thinking about quitting, getting ready to quit, quitting today, or are trying to stay quit.
  • Family Support Information: We send out resource information that addresses the concerns that family members have about the health impacts of smoking on a loved one as well as the health risks of secondhand smoke.

The Try-To-STOP TOBACCO Resource Center is open Monday through Thursday 9:00am to 7:00pm and Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm. Smokers can call us:

  • In English at 1-800-TRY-TO-STOP (800-879-8678)
  • In Spanish at 1-800-8-DEJALO (800-833-5256)
  • Via TTY at 1-800-TDD-1477 (800-833-1477)

The Quit Tips Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-800-9-GETATIP (1-800-943-8284)

If you live outside the state of Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Rhode Island and would like more information about quitting, call 1-800-4-CANCER (the National Cancer Institute's toll-free service), or 1-800-ACS-2345 (the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Response System).

You can also look in your local phone directory for tobacco resources in your area such as local chapters of the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, the American Heart Association, or state and local health departments.