Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5/13/2025
Asian Smokers Quitline (ASQ) - The Asian Smokers’ Quitline (ASQ) provides accessible, evidence-based tobacco cessation services in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese. The goal of ASQ is to reduce tobacco use and tobacco-related morbidity and mortality by providing services for Asian language speakers with limited English proficiency, a segment of the population that has traditionally had limited access to such assistance. Consistent with established practice since 2012, ASQ services will be accessible nationwide through three distinct toll free numbers, one for each language. ASQ staff will follow an in-language, culturally tailored, empirically validated, proactive counseling protocol and qualified tobacco users will be sent two weeks of nicotine replacement therapy. Services are also available for friends and family who want to help a tobacco user to quit. In-language text and chat services are in development and will be implemented early in the contract period. ASQ will build partnerships with health care providers and systems, community- based organizations, public health departments, and other quitlines to spread awareness and utilization of ASQ services. It is anticipated that smokers who receive counseling services from ASQ will succeed in quitting smoking at a rate comparable to that found in previous research.
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