Cessation/Quitting Support Services

You’re taking one of the biggest and most important steps to improving your health - quitting commercial tobacco and nicotine product use!

Nicotine is the highly addictive chemical in commercial tobacco products that makes it difficult to quit because it stimulates the release of dopamine, leading to feelings of pleasure and reward. Because nicotine is so addictive, quitting is often a learning process that requires some additional support and resources.

Explore this page to access the many valuable services and resources in Washington State (and nationwide) tailored to support you (or your loved one) in quitting tobacco/nicotine product use.

*An important note that e-cigarettes and vape pens are not an approved nicotine cessation tool and should not be used for trying to quit commercial tobacco/nicotine product use. Learn more about the evidence-based cessation services listed below.

• Washington State Quitline: Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669), visit www.quitline.com, or text READY to 34191. 
  • The quitline is staffed with Quit Coaches that provide free, confidential, one-on-one counseling. Depending on eligibility, they will provide free medication to help you in quitting smoking, vaping, or other tobacco product use.
• Washington State Department of Health, Getting Help to Quit Tobacco
• 2Morrow Health app smartphone app to help you quit
• Cancer Pathways Quit Tobacco Workshops
• Asian Smokers Quitline provides help in four Asian languages (Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, and Vietnamese)
• Smokefree.gov has tailored resources for veterans, women, teens, older adults, and Spanish speakers.
• Outlast Tobacco Quitline for the LGBTQ+ community. Provided by the National LGBT Cancer Network. Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW or text QUITNOW to 333888*
• Become an Ex
• Quit and Stay Quit Monday
• CDC Tips, Quit Smoking
• Quit for Life
• Nicotine Anonymous
• My Quit
• MultiCare - Nicotine Cessation
• Parents Against Vaping E-cigs
• American Academy of Pediatrics: cessation resources for healthcare providers, parents, and youth
• United Way, 211 phone number: tool for finding local tobacco cessation resources
• INSPIRE Online Support Communities
• Living Tobacco Free website for Washington PEBB and SEBB members

For Youth/Teens

• This is Quitting: text VAPEFREEWA to 88709 to sign-up
• 2Morrow Health app
• American Lung Association’s NOTforMe.org
• Truth Initiative text-based program. Teens and young adults can join for free by texting DITCHVAPE to 88709
• Smokefree.gov for teens
• Next Legends (American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth)
• American Academy of Pediatrics- Youth Cessation
• Rescue
• Youth Now

For Veterans

• Washington State Quitline: Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669), visit www.quitline.com, or text READY to 34191. 
  • The quitline is staffed with Quit Coaches that provide free, confidential, one-on-one counseling. Depending on eligibility, they will provide free medication to help you in quitting smoking, vaping, or other tobacco product use.
• WA State Veteran Commercial Tobacco Cessation Program – Go here first for links to a variety of resources for Washington’s veterans and military families
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Tobacco Quitting Services
• Call Quit VET (1-855-QUIT-VET, 1-855-784-8838) to speak to a tobacco cessation counselor between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pacific time (9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Eastern time), Monday through Friday in English or Spanish. Quit VET connects Veterans to a trained counselor who can help develop a quit plan and provide ongoing counseling and support to prevent relapse. Veterans need to be registered with the VA to use these services.
• The Veterans Health Administration’s Stop Smoking YouTube Channel features stories of others who have stopped smoking as well as tips to help you stop using tobacco.
  • VA Health Administration Expert Dr. Jonathon Lee
• Sign up for SmokefreeVET to receive texts with encouragement and support by texting VET to 47848. (For Spanish text VETESP to 47848). The benefits of signing up include regular text messages and tips when you text the keywords URGE, STRESS, or SMOKED.
• Call or send a secure message to your VA health care provider through the MyHealtheVet web portal to find out if they are among the many who offer one-on-one or group sessions by phone or video.
• Follow the SmokefreeVET Facebook page for tips and encouragement from other Veterans.

If you don’t see your county listed, it is because we have not identified cessation resources specific to that county or cities within the county. Please reach out through our Share a Cessation Resource form if you know of county/city-level tobacco cessation services that are not listed below.

Benton and Franklin County

• Benton-Franklin Health District ‘Quit Smoking Your Way’ Resources

Ferry County

• Northeast Tri County Health District Tobacco & Vaping Prevention

Garfield County

• Garfield County Health District Tobacco & Nicotine

Grant County

• Grant County Health District Tobacco Information, Quitting, and Materials

Grays Harbor County

• Grays Harbor County Public Health Quitting Tobacco

King County

• King County Public Health It’s never too late to quit smoking

Kittitas County

• Kittitas County Public Health Health Education Services, Tobacco Prevention & Control Program

Lewis County

• Lewis County Public Health and Social Services Tobacco Prevention

Pierce County

• Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Quit Tobacco

Snohomish County

• Snohomish County Health Department Smoke-Free Living

Spokane County

• Spokane Regional Health District, Done My Way Cessation Program
• Providence Inland Northwest Behavioral Health, Quit for Good Program
• E-cigarette and Vape Disposal

Stevens County

• Spokane Tribe Health and Human Services Prevention Program

Thurston County

• Thurston County, Substance Use Prevention

Whatcom County

Whatcom County, Vaping and e-cigarettes

What missing from this cessation services list?

Please use this form to share about a nicotine cessation service that could be listed here.

Thank you!