Our Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program offers several free tools to help people quit using tobacco products, including cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco products to help you live tobacco free.

Freedom From Smoking is ranked as one of the most effective cessation programs in the country. Available in a variety of formats, in-person or virtually, these are proven techniques to help you quit all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vaping.

Choosing the in-person or virtually facilitator ran, you can depend on: An 8-session series (across 7 weeks) taught to a group of people where peer support, a trained facilitator, and a number of tips and lessons help people find that becoming a non-smoker is doable, and also, can be enjoyable.

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The Quitline is here to help you be successful in your quit journey! This free tobacco cessation program is based on proven strategies that have helped more than 1.5 million people quit tobacco.

Enroll today – it’s easy and takes less than 5 minutes! The Quitline offers 3 programs. Choose the best program for you based on your style of communication and the level of support you’re seeking.

You can enroll online, or if you’d like to speak to someone to get more information, call 1-800-QUIT-NOW. You can use the Quitline more than one time, so there is no harm in enrolling as soon as you feel ready.

Plan to be Tobacco Free is a program offered by the Kentucky Cancer Program (KCP) to help Kentuckians learn which smoking cessation programs are available and assist them with deciding which option is best for them.

This FREE one-time class is conducted by KCP Tobacco Treatment Navigators online via Zoom or in-person at worksites or other community locations by request. To enroll or request a presentation click here.

While Quit Now Kentucky provides free help to people of all ages, high school and middle school students may want to try My Life, My Quit, a free, confidential quitline for Kentuckians 17 and younger. My Life, My Quit coaches are trained to work with adolescents to help them manage peer pressure and other challenges related to vaping and other tobacco use.

My Life, My Quit is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Coaching is available by text message, phone, or online chat.

To learn more about My Life, My Quit:
Call 855-891-9989
Text START MY QUIT to 36072
Online go to My Life, My Quit

​​​Kentucky Regulatory Statute (KRS) 158.149​ ​requires every Kentucky school district to have a 100% tobacco free school policy and provide evidence-based tobacco prevention and cessation materials and programming to students. This statute was amended by the state legislature in 2024 through the passing of HB 142.

JCHD’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program collaborates with the Jessamine County Schools to provide the following evidence-based tobacco prevention and cessation materials and programming to students. For more information on any of the program below, contact our Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coordinator.

Intervention for Nicotine Dependence: Education, Prevention, Tobacco and Health (INDEPTH) is a new, convenient alternative to suspension or citation that helps schools and communities address the teen vaping problem in a more supportive way.

Instead of solely focusing on punitive measures, INDEPTH is an interactive program that teaches students about nicotine dependence, establishing healthy alternatives, and how to kick the unhealthy addiction that got them in trouble in the first place.

Developed by the American Lung Association in partnership with the Prevention Research Center of West Virginia University, this new free education program is available for any school or community to establish to help our teens make healthier choices.

INDEPTH is an alternative to suspension program that teaches young people about the risk factors to nicotine addiction and ways to quit vaping. For more information, visit www.lung.org or contact our Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coordinator.

CATCH My Breath is an evidence-based youth vaping prevention program for grades 5-12 that has been proven to substantially reduce students’ likelihood of vaping. The CATCH My Breath Program (grades 5, 6, 7-8, 9-12) consists of 4 unique lessons for each grade group, that are approximately 35 minutes each.

The CATCH My Breath Program teaches students to:

• Understand that e-cigarettes are addictive, unhealthy, and not as popular as they think.
• Understand e-cigarette advertising tricks and techniques.
• Resist curiosity to experiment with e-cigarettes and practice resisting peer pressure.
• Influence others to not use e-cigarettes.

For more information, visit www.catchmybreath.org or contact our Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coordinator.

You and Me, Together Vape-Free is an evidence-based curriculum and part of the Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit. The You and Me, Together Vape-Free curriculum includes a middle and high school program that are 6 lessons, approximately 50 minutes each. It also includes a two-lesson elementary school version, approximately 50 minutes each.

Every lesson provides activities, online quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentations, resources, and other materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth e-cigarette use.

For more information, visit med.stanford.edu or contact our Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coordinator.