Fact Sheets

• All Insurance Plans Should Cover Tobacco Cessation Treatments
• An Action Plan for Cessation
• Helping People Quit Smoking Saves Money
• The Need for Tobacco Cessation Treatment In the Essential Health Benefits Package
• State Employee Health Plans Should Cover Cessation Treatments
• States Should Provide Cessation Coverage to Medicaid Enrollees
• What Works to Help Smokers Quit

American Lung Association Reports

• Save Lives and Money: Help People on Medicaid Quit Tobacco
  American Lung Association report released in conjunction with the Partnership for Prevention in July 2012. Explores why states should help people on Medicaid quit tobacco and what coverage is currently provided.
• Helping Smokers Quit: State Cessation Coverage
  American Lung Association report released every November. Summarizes and analyzes cessation coverage.
• State of Tobacco Control
  American Lung Association annual report that grades tobacco control policies, including cessation coverage, in each state.
• Save Lives and Money: Help State Employees Quit Tobacco
  American Lung Association report released in conjunction with the Partnership for Prevention in July 2009. Explores why states should help their employees quit tobacco and what coverage is currently provided to state employees

Other Useful Links

• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
  Public Health Service guideline on tobacco cessation, updated in 2008. Discusses effective treatments for tobacco cessation, based on reviews of scientific evidence.
• Kaiser Family Foundation
  Background information and statistics on all types of health insurance (Medicaid, Medicare, private, uninsured, etc.).
• Investing in a Tobacco-Free Future
  Information for employers and businesses interested in going smoke-free and helping their employees quit smoking.
• National Tobacco Cessation Collaborative
  Coalition of organizations and researchers interested in promoting  cessation.
• Partnership for Prevention
  See especially Priorities Among Effective Clinical Preventive Services, a study that ranks cessation services as one of the top three most valuable preventive services (for cost and effectiveness).
• ACTTION
  Coalition of stakeholders from multiple sectors wanting to expand access to cessation treatments.
• North American Quitline Consortium
  Information on quitlines nationwide.
• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
  Factsheets regarding cessation.
• American Legacy Foundation
  See especially Savings Lives, Saving Money II, which explores how much money states can save if smokers on Medicaid quit; and Covering Cessation as a Health Benefit, which makes the case for employer-sponsored cessation coverage.