Quitlines
This page reproduces material published by the Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network between 2005 and 2008. Names, roles, partners and funders are as published at that time and do not describe any current relationship, endorsement or funding. Nothing here is medical advice.
North
American Quitline Consortium
NAQC website offers information exchange, resources, and evaluation
of quitlines in the United States and Canada.
Presentations
from the North American Conference of Smoking Cessation Quitlines
(May 2002)
The North American Conference on Smoking Cessation Quitlines
brought together quitline providers, researchers and funders
of quitlines across North America in May 2002. Slides include
Survey of Quitlines in North America, A Review of the Efficacy
of Quitlines, Intervention Methods, Evaluation: What Is Needed
In The Field and How It Can Be Done, and Special Populations.
Smoking
Cessation Quitlines Maps and Facts
Provides a state-by-state list of toll-free telephone numbers
that offer counseling and information about quitting smoking.
Available through the North American Quitline Consortium.
Quitline
Operations: A Practical Guide to Promising Approaches (2005)
Available through the North American Quitline Consortium.
CDC
Quitline Resource Guide: Strategies for Effective Development,
Implementation, and Evaluation (September 2004)
Helps states, health care organizations, and quitline operators
enhance existing quitline services, and inform those interested
in learning more about population-based approaches to tobacco
cessation. Published by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Linking
a Network: Integrate Quitlines with Health Care Systems
The Linking a Network report of the Pacific Center on Health
and Tobacco describes a new, emerging model for quitlines.
In this model, quitlines expand beyond only providing services
and take on a broader role as a centralized state resource
for providing quitting information, using new cost-sharing
approaches with private insurance to provide services, and
serve as a referral center linking callers with health plan
and community programs.
Ask-Advise-Refer
Fact Sheet on Quitlines
Ask-Advise-Refer is the American Dental Hygienists
Association’s (ADHA) national Smoking Cessation Initiative
(SCI) designed to promote cessation intervention by dental
hygienists.
Publications:
Barland R, Segan CJ, Livingston PM, Owen N. The effectiveness of callback counseling for smoking cessation: a randomized trial. Addiction. 2001;96:881-889.
Ossip-Klein DJ, McIntosh S. Quitlines in North America: evidence base and applications. American Journal of Medical Science 2003;326(4):2001-2005.
Stead LF, Lancaster T, Perera R. Telephopne counseling for smoking cessation (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library Issue 2, 2004. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Zhu, SH, Anderson CM, et al. Evidence of real-world effectiveness of a telephone quitline for smokers. N Eng J of Med 2002 347;14: 1087-93.
Zhu, SH, Mercer T. Rosbrook, B. Pierce, JP. Smoking Cessation with and without: A population analysis. Am J Prev Med 2002;18(4):305-311.
Published 2005–2008 · Reviewed 10 August 2026