Quit Together Program

Quit Together (QT) is a program through the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Tobacco Treatment Program (UNC TTP) providing free tobacco cessation treatment to North Carolina Cancer Center Hospital (NCCH) patients and their support persons. This support person recruitment toolkit compiles documents we have created in the design and implementation of our Quit Together C3I study.

The toolkit (found here) contains the following Quit Together documents:

1. Introduction email to patients who express interest in joining the program. The email contains a link to the more detailed QT information and consent document. This email also contains a request to forward the email to their friends or loved ones who may be interested in joining the QT program. The content directed at the support person provides basic information about the QT program and instructions on how to enroll.
2. Introduction email to support persons with the same content as the email to patients. This email is targeted to the support person as the first recipient when a support person is the first person to express interest in joining the QT program. This email invites support persons to forward the email to their friends or loved ones who are receiving care at NCCH and may be interested in quitting tobacco.
3. Information document provided to both the patient and the support person at the time of enrollment.
4. General workflow diagram.
5. Program advertisement that is printed as flyers (posted in hospital waiting and clinic rooms) and as cards for patients or support persons to take home.

We hope you find this toolkit useful in your future quality improvement and research studies involving the recruitment of support persons into tobacco cessation treatment.

Please contact us at the UNC Tobacco Treatment Program with any questions regarding these materials.

Warmest regards,
The UNC Tobacco Treatment Team
quit.together@unc.edu