California Smokers' Helpline & Stater Bros. Pharmacies Partnership.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
The California Smokers Helpline and Stater Bros. Super Rx Pharmacies are launching a new partnership to help smokers overcome nicotine addiction.
Stater Bros. Super Rx Pharmacies will provide NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy) to qualifying individuals, as allowed by California Senate Bill 493. This law allows pharmacists to prescribe NRT just as physicians do. NRT is covered by most insurance and a prescription can be coordinated at one of the 24 local Stater Bros. Super Rx Pharmacies throughout Southern California.
Stater Bros. Pharmacists will also assist customers by providing referrals to the free, evidence-based smoking cessation services available from the California Smokers’ Helpline. Upon referral, the California Smokers’ Helpline will call patients to offer free telephone counseling, self-help materials, and referral to local cessation resources.
“The California Smokers’ Helpline applauds the efforts of Stater Bros. Super Rx Pharmacies to increase patient access to nicotine replacement therapy, an evidence-based strategy for helping smokers quit,” stated Shu-Hong Zhu, Ph.D., Director of the Helpline and Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego.
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