Stop Smoking Services

Overview

Mayo Clinic provides top-quality, evidence-based care in a nonjudgmental and supportive manner to help you stop smoking. Your treatment team offers you support and works with you to develop an effective stop-smoking plan to enhance your motivation and the skills needed to quit when you are ready.

Why choose Mayo Clinic

• Experience. More than 45,000 people have used the services of Mayo Clinic's Nicotine Dependence Center to learn to stop smoking or chewing tobacco. Programs are led by counselors with special training and experience in treating tobacco dependence.
• Treatment offerings. Mayo Clinic offers a variety of programs, including a unique eight-day residential treatment program. The programs can help those who need just a little extra push to quit, as well as those who have almost given up — and everyone in between. Learn more about the programs.
• Comprehensive, evidence-based care. Mayo Clinic's programs are supervised by doctors so that all aspects of your condition are considered in the treatment process. Nicotine dependence treatment is coordinated with treatment of other medical problems, when necessary.

Read more about quit-smoking basics and creating a quit-smoking plan at MayoClinic.com.