All health care plans should cover all seven FDA-approved medications as well as individual and group counseling delivered in person, online, or by phone with no cost-sharing for plan enrollees
One study found that staff across four mental health wards spent over 6000 hours facilitating smoking breaks over a six-month period, representing an annual cost of over 130,000

Pfizer asserts, "It is important to note that a vast body of medical literature has shown that smoking cessation, with or without treatment, is associated with nicotine withdrawal symptoms and has also been associated with the exacerbation of underlying psychiatric illnesses." Before accepting Pfizer's contention (which the FDA now appears to be buying into hook, line and sinker) we'd be wise to ask ourselves, with more than 46.5 million Americans having already successfully quit smoking, and CDC data indicating that almost 90% quit cold turkey, how many news stories have any of us ever read in which quitting cold turkey (without using any pharmacology product) was blamed for someone committing suicide, hallucinating, developing a psychotic disorder, horrible muscle or joint pain, or during which the quitter vomited for twelve straight weeks
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All commented that, in retrospect, they would have run concurrent mass media campaigns (ideally, linked to the new on-pack warnings) that stressed the serious risks of smoking and benefits of quitting
Discussion about the university becoming tobacco-free began with requests from Staff Senate and faculty members to the university president