A ban on flavored tobacco products, including menthol tobacco, provides a significant opportunity for employers and health plans to encourage individuals to consider (or reconsider) quitting. Learn how a multimodal program can help translate interest in quitting prompted by a menthol ban into a successful quit.

Incentives can generate higher rates of smoking cessation compared to those who only receive information about quitting. But they can have a downside, too. Incentives can unintentionally foster resentment in those who don’t really want to quit but feel forced to do so. Here's how live chat coaches approach the disengaged.

The challenge in providing the best treatment for tobacco use lies in finding a way to personalize each person’s quit plan while making support and medication convenient and available. Learn the 4 hallmarks to providing easily accessible individualized treatment.

Smoking and employee productivity don’t typically fit together. When you understand what happens inside a smoker’s brain, you can better understand why.

Despite all we know about the health problems caused by using tobacco, people continue to smoke, dip or chew. This can seem baffling.

To help smokers quit, many employers and health plans still offer programs with phone coaching. Yet the average quitline participant now takes less than two calls.

With the right online communities, employers can kickstart and sustain employee engagement in improving their health. Research shows that even complex and costly addictions, such as tobacco use, can be overcome with active support from an online community.

For many of us, cell phones are our lifelines to the outside world. Yet, we spend WAY more time on our phones doing things OTHER than talking.Today’s popular communication channels—such as live chat, email and texting—provide the privacy and ability to connect with others when it works for us.

If you guess New Year’s is one of the most popular times for smokers to try to quit, you’re right. But are there other popular times? Does interest in quitting change throughout the year? Is there a seasonality to quitting?