Tobacco Education

Oregon Tobacco Quit Line

The Quit Line is free to all Oregonians. If you are thirteen or older, you can use the Quit Line Your conversations with staff and quit coaches are confidential. If you have used cigarettes, chewing tobacco, e-cigarettes, or any other tobacco products, the Quit Line is available to you. You can call if you are considering quitting, actively quitting, needing a little help to stay quit, or supporting someone else to quit.

1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)
Spanish: 1-877-NO-FUME (1-877-266-3863)
TTY: 1-877-777-6534
Or Register Online

Samaritan Health Services: Freedom from Smoking

A free seven-week smoking cessation program where you will learn about medications that can increase your success, lifestyle changes to make quitting easier, and how to prepare for your quit day.

Baby & Me Tobacco Free Program

The Baby & Me Tobacco Free program offers support, guidance, and incentives to pregnant individuals who are committed to quitting smoking and ensuring a tobacco-free environment for themselves and their babies.

Program requirements include:

This is Quitting

This is Quitting is a free evidence-based text vaping cessation program for youth through a partnership with the Oregon Health Authority and the Truth Initative.

To sign up, text VAPEFREEOR or DEJELOOR (Spanish) to 88709.

Mandatory Tobacco Cessation Coverage

SB 734: Oregon’s Opportunity for Tobacco Users to Quit

The 2009 Oregon Legislature passed a new law (Senate Bill 734) that requires commercial health insurers to cover tobacco use cessation as a core benefit. The law took effect on Jan. 1, 2010. Each private health plan in Oregon, or insurer that covers any Oregon resident, must provide enrollees a core benefit of at least $500 for access to and coverage for FDA-approved treatment options such as basic treatment programs and available services and therapies.

2019 Linn County Health & Economic Impact Assessment of Tobacco Retail

A copy of the assessment can be found below.

The tobacco industry has established itself as a constant presence in communities throughout the United States and Oregon. Their advertising and marketing tactics, found in local convenience stores, grocery stores, pharmacies, and other store types, have become almost impossible to avoid. The rise of the electronic cigarette, flavored tobacco, and discrete devices to use tobacco and even cannabis products has also created a heightened appeal in youth groups with lack of understanding of their potential negative impacts. Given that nearly 90% of adults who are daily tobacco users begin by 18 years of age, it is essential to protect youth from the purposeful targeting of tobacco industry.

To address these issues on a local level, the Linn County Public Health Department (LCPH) Health Promotion Program partnered with local community organizations, retailers, and healthcare providers to conduct a Health and Economic Impact Assessment. The assessment demonstrates how the tobacco retail environment has impacted community members and will serve to provide insight for potential solutions and actions that can lead to a healthier more equitable community. As one community member said, “As parents and community members, we need to be more mindful about what example we are setting.”

The assessment outlines community members and retailers describing changes they would like to see in their communities including more public spaces and events that are smoke free, promotion of cessation resources, and ways to support retailers in efforts to make the retail environment healthier.

The 2019 Health and Impact Assessment built on previous work Linn County has conducted in partnership with local business owners. In 2018, to understand how much space the tobacco industry occupies in Oregon, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Tobacco Prevention and Education Program (TPEP) conducted a statewide assessment of tobacco advertising, marketing and promotion in retail locations. To collect data in a clear and objective way, TPEP trained and partnered with teams of local health department staff, nonprofit organizations, tribes and community volunteers to use a standard assessment tool.

The 2018 retail assessment findings provide a snapshot of the tobacco industry’s presence across Oregon. It sheds light on the ways the industry targets people in Oregon, particularly youth.