Nicotine Dependence Treatment

Nicotine Control
More than 1,400 patients have been seen so far in this hospital-based clinical program to help patients stop tobacco use. The program is based on the USPHS AHCR Clinical Best Practice Guidelines.

Patients are counseled at the outset of treatment and again at 6, 12, 26, and 52 week intervals. They are tracked closely throughout.

Quit rates are currently about 25 percent, which is two points above the national average for nicotine cessation treatment.

Physicians and midlevels at the Bethel hospital refer patients to the program for their initial assessments and treatment. In six pilot village sites, patients are referred by village health aides or mid-levels at the subregional clinics and treated by regional wellness counselors.

In 2004, three additional pilot sites will be added in the ongoing effort to provide village-based cessation treatment. Two of these sites will be subregional clinics that serve the populations of many villages from one central point. Yupik-speaking counselors, who have been trained by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, perform all clinical counseling services.

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How to Make an Appointment
You can call the Scheduler for your clinic: Yukon or Kusko

543-6442
543-6373
543-6404

Or you can register as a Walk-in through Delta Clinic

Or ask your Health Care Provider to refer you to our program

Call us Directly for more information at 1-800-478-3321 or 543-6312

WE'LL HELP YOU STOP!!