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Create a customized Freedom From Smoking
program for your organization to help smokers
quit and lower healthcare costs.

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Lower healthcare costs with the gold standard smoking cessation program from the American Lung Association.

  • Customizable with a wide range of options
  • The choice of leading employers, hospitals and health plans
    for 30 years
  • Proven effective at helping people quit smoking for good

Helping people quit smoking is one of the best things you can do to help them improve their health and control runaway healthcare costs. Consider the facts:

Tobacco-related diseases kill 443,000 Americans annually.1

Smoking is responsible for approximately one in five deaths in the U.S.1

Cigarette smoking increases the length of time that people spend with a disability by about 2 years.2

Smoking increases the risk of coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times3,4, stroke by 2 to 4 times3,6 and lung cancer by 13 to 23 times3.

Cigarette smoking costs the economy over $193 billion in annual healthcare costs and lost productivity.1

Employees who smoke cost an average of $1,429 more in healthcare costs than non-smoking employees.7

Employers can save an estimated $3,400 per year for every individual who quits smoking.5

Despite all the dangers and negative effects of smoking, getting people to quit for good is no easy task. About 46 million people (21% of the U.S. adult population) smoke cigarettes5 even though 74% of adult smokers in the U.S. report that they want to quit.8

Freedom From Smoking is proven effective.

There are many programs designed to help people quit smoking, but none of them match the success of the Freedom From Smoking program.

  • Ranked most effective smoking cessation program in a study of 100 managed care organizations conducted by Fordham University Graduate School of Business
  • When the program is used in combination with smoking cessation medications, up to 60% of participants report having quit by the end of the program
  • Freedom From Smoking generates higher quit rates than people who try to quit on their own; 25% of participants report not smoking one year after the program ends, while only 5% of people who quit cold turkey remain non-smokers after one year

Create a customized Freedom From Smoking program for your organization to help smokers quit and lower healthcare costs.

Learn more about the American Lung Association Freedom From Smoking Program


Bring Freedom From Smoking’s flexible program options to your organization

Contact us at 267-685-2510 or complete our online request form, and a representative will contact you to discuss your
no-obligation, customized smoking cessation solution.

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SOURCES:

1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Productivity Losses – United States, 2000-2004. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, November 14, 2008; 57(45); 1226-28.

2Nusselder WJ, Looman CWN, Marang-van de Mheen PJ, van de Mheen H, Mackenbachet JP. Smoking and the Compression of Morbidity. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2000;54:566–74 [cited 2009 Mar 31].

3U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004 [accessed 2009 May 5].

  

4U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville (MD): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1989 [accessed 2009 May 5].

5Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Trends in Smoking Cessation — United States, 2008. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, November 13, 2009; 58(44); 1227-32.

6Ockene IS, Miller NH. Cigarette Smoking, Cardiovascular Disease, and Stroke: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the American Heart Association. Circulation 1997;96(9):3243–3247 [cited 2009 May 5].

7Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch, NC Department of Health and Human Services, 2003.

8Gallup Poll, July 10-13, 2008.
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