Erin Thompson, Marketing Manager:   The heart of Free & Clear’s mission has always been to address chronic disease through health behavior change. As a national leader in tobacco cessation, our goal for the last 20 years has been to help employers build a healthier, more prod... [More]

Tim McAfee, Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Behavioral Sciences:   The federal panel that recommends what immunizations Americans should get has determined that all adult smokers should be immunized against a bacteria that causes pneumonia and meningitis (the pneumococcal vaccine). ... [More]

Ken Wassum, Senior Product Manager   We have become somewhat numb to the fact that 440,000 Americans a year die from a preventable cause – cigarette smoking. That’s 1,200 deaths per day. Use whatever analogy you want -- 48 Amtrak accidents per day where 25 die, 3 fully load... [More]

Ryan Crawford, Quit Coach Trainer, Service Delivery:   My grandfather died of emphysema. Twice. I never met my grandfather, but from what my father tells me, both of his deaths were terrible. Dale was a self-made man who survived through homelessness with a work ethic... [More]

Andy Roberts, Senior Manager, Call Quality and Satisfaction:   Jon Lovett manages a tobacco shop in Hutchinson, Kansas and his current advertising campaign is drawing some media attention. The billboard outside his store reads: SMOKING REALLY IS COOL. He says that business is... [More]

Tim McAfee, Chief Medical Officer:   I just put my wife on a plane to Amsterdam today. I’ll be a single parent for a week, and it's all because of smoking. She is going for a last visit with her Aunt Gerda, who at the age of 75, was recently diagnosed with Stage-4 lung cancer... [More]

Tim McAfee, Chief Medical Officer:    We are bombarded by information every day about things in modern life that are “bad” for us. Often a year later, we hear that what was “bad” is now “good,” or at least not as “bad” as we thought.... [More]