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Tobacco Free Allegheny provides funding to the following organizations so that they can offer FREE cessation counseling to the residents of Allegheny County and access to FREE nicotine replacement therapy.
If there are no programs in your area please call 412-322-8321.
Duquesne University Center for Pharmacy Care
Spirit of Health Initiative
Duquesne University Center for Pharmacy Care uses its “health van” to travel to the communities of Etna, Millvale, Lawrenceville, South Side Hilltop and Carnegie as the vehicle for increasing the capacity of wellness screening and referral services offered by the Spirit of Health Initiative to include tobacco cessation information to its clients.
Contact:
Christine O’Neil
oneilc@duq.edu
412-396-6417
Mercy Behavioral Health
Mercy Behavioral Health (MBH) provides cessation counseling services for its MH/MR/AOD consumers, internal employees, external worksites, pregnant women and women of childbearing age. MBH provides a range of cessation counseling at Mercy Main, Mercy North and the Northside Christian Health Center, Allegheny General Prenatal Clinic, Gwen’s Girls, Rosalia Center, Genesis House, Renewal Inc., Peoples Oakland the Hearing and Deaf Association and Cromisa.
Contact:
Jerry Pilewski
JPilewski@mercybh.org
412-320-2399
Pittsburgh STOP Program
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Located at Magee - Womens Hospital of UPMC and hosted by WPIC, the STOP program provides smoking cessation and relapse prevention services for low income pregnant women in Allegheny County. The facilitators at STOP provide an individualized menu of smoking cessation/relapse prevention components geared to improving pregnancy outcomes.
Contact:
Patricia Cluss
clussp@upmc.edu
412-647-2933
St. Clair Hospital
St. Clair provides tobacco related health education and cessation services to residents of the South Hills. As part of its community outreach, St. Clair partners with the Spirit of Health Initiative to reach the residents of Carnegie. St. Clair utilizes Snax for Fax as a referral and education resource reaching physician practices in the South and Western parts of the county. Additionally, St. Clair provides brief help on quitting to all inpatients who are smokers.
Contact:
Susan Harshbarger
Susan.harshbarger@stclair.org
412-942-2008
UPMC McKeesport
UPMC McKeesport’s Community Outreach Program provides adult cessation classes, inpatient education and a highly successful education and referral program: Snax for Fax. The Snax for Fax model developed by UPMC McKeesport is a weekly tobacco related quiz designed to increase tobacco knowledge within the healthcare community and to general referrals to cessation programs. In addition to providing cessation services at the hospital, the program reaches into the community through homeless shelters and rehabilitation/recovery programs. The Outreach Program also provides education in the form of asthma workshops for school personnel, parents and patients.
Contact:
Betty Jean Marconi
marconibj@upmc.edu
412-664-2114
UPMC Southside
UPMC Southside implements initiatives to reduce the prevalence of chronic disease in the communities served by the hospital targeting minorities. Cessation services include outpatient group classes, individual sessions and maintenance programs. Southside also provides inpatient education/counseling with referrals to the outpatient cessation program. Education programming includes quarterly lectures, training of all new UPMC Southside employees and outreach to local physician practices.
Contact:
Amy Jones Barlock
Amy_jonesbarlock@hotmail.com
412-488-6250
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