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• 2 ways to enroll:
1-800-QUIT-NOW or wy.quitnet.com
• Available to all Wyoming residents
• Printed materials available by mail or on line
• Specific counseling and media for disparate
populations i.e.(pregnant; youth (12-17);
smokeless tobacco; Spanish)
• Counseling offered for ages 12 and up
• Tobacco cessation medications ages 18 and
up
WYOCARE.orgBrochuresBusiness CardsBumper StickersDVD and VideosPostersCar Air FreshenersQuit spit kitsPizza box flyer
Outreach Activities
• Fax referral system in place
• Reach out to schools (nurses/P.E. teachers/coaches/health teachers, etc.)
• Assist hospitals and health care businesses to
become smoke-free/tobacco-free
• Visit businesses – smoke-free/tobacco-free Using the business tool kit throughwithchew.com
• Printed materials for many special
populations
Cessation Medications
• THREE MONTHS
• Nicotine patches/gum/lozenge free - and sent to home address
• Prescription medications (Chantix/Wellbutrin/ Zyban)
Works on a voucher process – (they must get a prescription first) – 1st voucher pays for $120.00
2nd voucher pays for $90.00 and 3rd voucher pays for $90.00. Can re enroll until 3rd voucher is issued
and/or if 3rd voucher has been issued – they must wait one year from their enrollment date before they
get another 3 months of vouchers. Counseling is always free and 24/7/365.
Maximize Reach
• 23 TFWC (Tobacco Free Wyoming Communities)
Program Managers help develop community
relations and promote the WQTP
• Newspaper ads
• Radio ads
• Billboards
• Pharmacy
Critical
• #1 referrals to our program has been Physician referral
with #2 being Friends and Family
• Very important to have Physicians behind your program. We even push
the Medicaid coding CPT codes for tobacco cessation
In Wyoming Physicians can use CPT Code 99407 which pays $23, and is smoking and tobacco
cessation counseling visit greater than 10 minutes. And CPT Code 99406 which pays $12, and is smoking
and tobacco cessation counseling visit intermediate, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes.
• Looking into developing a system that Physicians can check on their
patients use of our program for accountability
• Being able to offer Chantix drove our numbers up also. Even with the
warning and a black box labeling, this medication is very successful in
helping all forms of tobacco users quit. Currently there is some
resistance in Physicians prescribing the use of Chantix, but it is still our
#1 requested medication
Evaluation
• State of Wyoming Department of Health
contracts with an outside organization called
for evaluation and data collection
• Healthways does a monthly and yearly report
• Weekly/daily contact with Healthways via
phone or email
Sustainability• Through an RFP we changed from American
Cancer Society to Healthways for
management of our WQTP
• Removed many barrier of enrollment (on line
enrollment)/geographically a good step
• NRT’s mailed – (geographically a good step
because Pharmacy may not be close)
• Continue to recruit Pharmacy participation
• Continue to develop a broader range of
Physician/healthcare endorsement
Increase Reach
• Know your state…what
your people want…what
barriers to remove and try
to offer the most
(counseling/medications)
you can for your budget
• Be creative….
• Use natural resources…
(tumbleweeds?)
Bio• Kathi Wilson started with the Wyoming Department
of Health in the Mental Health & Substance Abuse
Services Division as the Tobacco Cessation
Coordinator in 2007
• Kathi received her Tobacco Treatment Specialist
certification in 2007
• In Kathi’s spare time she
rides and shows horses• kathi.wilson@health.wyo.gov
• #(307)777-3358
Thank you
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