Tobacco-use cessation program offered

GHI has partnered with the American Cancer Society (ACS) in offering a program to help your group members stop using tobacco. Because smoking and other forms of tobacco use constitute one of the nation’s leading causes of cardiopulmonary disease, as well as excess health care expenditures and productivity losses, an effective cessation program is essential for preserving the health of your group members and controlling your health-coverage costs.

With the ACS program, available to your group at no additional cost, your group members and their dependents will receive:

• Telephone counseling to help each participant create a personalized strategy for quitting.
• Nicotine replacement therapy, including nicotine patches, gum, and lozenges.

Studies show that telephone counseling doubles a person’s chances for quitting and that the combination of telephone counseling and nicotine replacement therapy quadruples chances for success.

GHI is excited to include the ACS tobacco-use cessation program as a supplement to your GHI benefits program. Please note that this is a value-added program that is not underwritten by GHI.

For more information about the tobacco-use cessation program, visit the ACS Web site at www.cancer.org, or contact your GHI Account Executive.