The Departments of Mental Health, Addiction Services, and Public Health have urged people from all over the US to join in the GASO (American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout), which encourages users to quit at least for one day with the hope of reducing their risk of cancer and other chronic disease.

Tristate reported that more 1 million Indiana adults were still using tobacco, effectively putting themselves at risk. According to Jerome Adams., M.D., M.P.H said "One of the best things someone can do in order to improve their health is to quit tobacco" he added, "When you quit smoking, you decrease the risk of having cancer and you do also improve the health of everyone in your home, including the unborn babies."

Dr. Raul Pino said in news release, "I strongly encourage smokers and tobacco users to utilize the cessation that DPH has made available to increase users cancers to quit smoking successfully."

The Health Department has several programs to that are made available free of charges. To Connecticut residents QuitLine at (800) 784-8669 the online registration is available for 24 hours per day and seven days a week. Online registration is also available at quitnow.net/Connecticut and there's also a text program to help the user stay on track, The Day has reported. 

The Connecticut QuitLine has professionally trained quit coaches whose former smokers, made available to prepare the participants into the quite date program. To look for nearby locations just visit https://www.ct.gov/dph/tobacco for more program list. There are also smartphone program applications available to help and guide users through the process. The app can be found at smokefree.gov.