Wyoming

Quit

Tobacco

Program(WQTP)

• 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

Media

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