Preventing Cancers by Bringing Evidence-Based Tobacco Use Interventions to Community and Healthcare Centers Across Texas
The mission of Taking Texas Tobacco Free is to promote wellness among Texans by partnering with community and healthcare organizations to build capacity for system-wide, sustainable initiatives that reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure among employees, patients, and visitors.
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Program Testimonials
I, Twila Gilman, want to thank you for your interest, concern and thoughtfulness to want to help people that want to better their life, health and appearance by stop[ping] smoking. Your caring and generosity is making it possible for people like me that want to stop, but don’t have money to purchase the patch. I never thought I would ever want to stop smoking. The opportunity is here and I’m trying, thanks to you.
- Twila Gilman, Client
Billy T. Cattan Recovery Outreach
When we started the initiative, it was amazing how wrong we were as mental health professionals because many of us have been in this field a long time and we always assumed that our clients didn’t want to stop smoking because they couldn’t or if they did, their symptoms would get worse. We never thought to ask them, and once we realized our clients [were open to quitting] we really just asked them and they did not want to continue smoking. And once we became an instrument to help them, a lot of the clients were quite successful.
– Debra Shedrick, Program Manager
Spindletop Center

EXPLORE OUR RESOURCES
View webisodes on Smoking/Vaping and COVID-19 in both English and Spanish, an Emergency Guide for Treating Tobacco Use During An Emergency Situation, a Policy Guide on recommendations for TTTF program implementation, and more on our Featured Resources page!
Want to take a free online training on how to treat tobacco use? Need some health education material on quitting smoking for your patients in English, Spanish, Chinese, or Vietnamese? Need materials for special populations like individuals who are homeless, sexual minority individuals, teens, e-cigarette users, or hookah users? Want to know more about tobacco use among those with opioid addictions? Want to know more about tobacco cessation medication side effects?
Explore our TOOLS drop-down menu for these free resources and more! In addition to printable materials in multiple languages, we also have helpful videos for patients and practitioners in English and Spanish.