Nicotine Dependence Center

Overview

The Nicotine Dependence Centers at Mayo Clinic offer a variety of programs to help people stop smoking. Mayo Clinic has helped more than 30,000 people try to stop smoking or chewing tobacco in the last 15 years.

See Stop Smoking Services at Mayo

Counselors with special training and experience in treating addictive and behavioral disorders lead the stop smoking programs. Physicians oversee the treatment programs and organize multidisciplinary care according to each patient's health needs. Individual counseling programs at each Mayo Clinic location incorporate three key elements:

• Counseling to help patients understand and change their behaviors
• Pharmacologic therapy to help ease the discomfort of withdrawal from nicotine
• Follow-up to prevent relapse

Mayo Clinic in Rochester offers an intensive, eight-day residential (live-in) program for people who need intensive help in stopping smoking.