Category: Tobacco Cessation and Prevention

Address: 1701 Oak Park Boulevard, Lake Charles, LA 70601
Website: https://www.lcmh.com/patients-visitors/health-wellness/smoking-cessation/stop-smoking-help/

The Louisiana Tobacco Control Initiative provides free, evidence-based smoking cessation services at Lake Charles Memorial Health System. Designated staff member, JoAnn Brooks, NCTTP, offers several quit smoking options for patients and employees, including:

  • Individual face-to-face behavioral counseling; sessions upon requet
  • Group behavioral counseling; classes held several times a month
  • Referral to the state’s Quitline for FREE telephone or web-based counseling
  • Referral to the Louisiana Smoking Cessation Trust program for Free counseling and medication*
  • Assistance with obtaining a prescription for cessation medication from a person’s primary care doctor to help them quit

*To qualify for the FREE Louisiana Smoking Cessation Trust program a person must have started smoking before September 1, 1988, and be a Louisiana resident.

Contact: JoAnn Brooks, NCTTP

More Information: 337-480-8308 or jbroo1@lsuhsc.edu

Quit Smoking Help

1701 Oak Park Boulevard, Lake Charles, LA 70601

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