Prescription Benefit - Smoking Cessation

Smoking Cessation Coverage

Effective July 1, 2007, the UK Prescription Benefit has added coverage for smoking cessation, limited to the use of varenicline (Chantix™).

Your prescription benefit for Chantix™ is limited to $500 “UK plan cost” per UK health plan member per year (this means a maximum of 8 months of prescription coverage per person per year at this time).  Your coinsurance for Chantix is 40%, or about $40 per month.   

The same prescription benefit exists for all UK health plan members, including UK-HMO, UK-PPO, UK-PPO High, UK-EPO, and UK Indemnity.

For additional information on smoking cessation:

UK HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM:

Start to Stop Smoking

http://www.uky.edu/HR/wellness/starttostop.html

The Start to STOP Program is a low-pressure approach designed to encourage you to become a non-smoker. BeHIP is an entirely telephonic stage-based program which allows you to proceed through each stage at your own pace.

PFIZER:

GETQUIT Support Plan

www.chantix.com and www.get-quit.com

1-877-CHANTIX

Information sponsored by the Pfizer describing the drug Chantix™ and a free support program including a step-by-step guide for preparing to stop smoking, emails or phone support for up to a full year, web site, coaches, etc.

NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE:

NCI’s Smoking Quitline

www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/smoking

www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/smokeless-tobacco

1-877-44U-QUIT (or 1-877-448-7848)

Smoking cessation counselors are available to answer smoking-related questions, including quitting smokeless tobacco, in English or Spanish, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. local time. Call toll free.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE and NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: Medline Plus®

Smoking Cessation References

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingcessation.html

A compilation of various references.

STATE OF KENTUCKY:

Kentucky’s Tobacco Quit Line

http://chfs.ky.gov/dph/ach/cd/quitline.htm

1-800-Quit Now (or 1-800-784-8669)

The Quit Line offers a one-on-one proactive counseling program for tobacco users and their friends and family who are ready to quit using tobacco products. Kentuckians can call 1-800-784-8669 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (EST) Monday through Friday.   (There is a 24-hour voice mail, and they will call you back.)