For people who want to quit smoking, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is a proven way to improve the chances of success. That’s why the University of Colorado Cancer Center is now making a form of the therapy available for free across Colorado.
As part of its “Be Strong for Tomorrow” tobacco-cessation program, the CU Cancer Center’s Office of Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) is offering a two-week supply of NRT skin patches, delivered to the homes of Coloradans ages 18 and older who complete a short screening survey.
The patches are offered without a prescription through the 2Morrow Health phone app, which CU Cancer Center COE has been offering to Coloradans since 2023. The app provides a package of smoking-cessation tools customized to each user’s circumstances.
To learn more about smoking risks and NRT, we turned to CU Cancer Center member Gina Kruse, MD, MPH, a research leader on tobacco cessation. Kruse, a professor of medicine in the CU Anschutz Division of General Internal Medicine, is director of the Colorado Nicotine, E-Cigarettes, and Tobacco Research Alliance (CoNECTR).