Oklahoma Quit Week is Jan. 20-27

Posted on: 1/15/21

The OK to Quit campaign is a statewide, grassroots social media campaign that promotes a positive tobacco cessation message.  

The 2021 Oklahoma Quit Week (Jan. 20-27) is a great opportunity to increase efforts and initiatives to assist patients and employees in quitting tobacco. OK to Quit has created a toolkit for partners that includes images and information to post on your social media accounts or use in communications to employees and the community. Click here to download the free resources and find more information on becoming an OK to Quit partner.

Ways to celebrate Oklahoma Quit Week: 
• Promote Quit Week on your hospital’s social media accounts by creating your own content or following and promoting @oktoquit and other tobacco cessation resources like @stopswithme and @okhelpline. 
• Provide cessation support information to employees in breakrooms, newsletters, and other internal avenues of communication.
• Update your hospital’s existing tobacco policy and promote the policy to patients and employees during Quit Week. The Hospitals Helping Patients Quit (HHPQ) team has sample policies to make things easy for your organization. 
• Set up an interview with your local radio, newspaper, television media for a provider to talk about tobacco cessation, resources, etc. 
•Incentivize community members and employees to turn in their tobacco products, set a quit date, sign a tobacco free pledge, or call the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline. 
•If you have not yet engaged with the Hospitals Helping Patients Quit (HHPQ) initiative at OHA, it is a great time to do so. Email the OHA team at [email protected] to get started or to get additional assistance for Quit Week programming at your hospital. 

The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) supports OHA’s Hospital Helping Patients Quit and the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline. (Meagan Carter)