The Louisiana Tobacco Control Initiative (LA-TCI) provides free, evidence-based smoking cessation services at University Hospital & Clinics. Designated staff member Nakesha Latiker, NCTTP, offers several quit smoking options for patients and employees, including:

• Individual face-to-face behavioral counseling; sessions upon request
• Group behavioral counseling; classes held several times a month, call the number below to register
• Referral to the state's Quit line for free telephone or web-based counseling
• Referral to the Louisiana Smoking Cessation Trust program for free counseling and medication
• Assistance with obtaining a prescription for cessation medication from a person's primary care doctor to help them quit

To qualify for the free Louisiana Smoking Cessation Trust program, a person must have started smoking before September 1, 1988 and be a Louisiana resident. Click here for more information about the LA-TCI, or you may contact your TCI Cessation Specialist directly using the information below.

naugus@lsuhsc.edu 
M-F - 8 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(337) 261-8541