From 2012-2018, the campaign has helped result in:
1 million
quits
16.4 million
quit attempts
129,000
early deaths prevented
If you’ve quit smoking and have been diagnosed with a smoking-related health condition, we want to hear your story.
During the past 10 years, more than 40 people have shared their real stories through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Tips From Former Smokers® (Tips®) campaign of how smoking has negatively impacted them and their families. Those stories inspired more than 16.4 million people to try to quit smoking and approximately 1 million to successfully quit between 2012 and 2018.
This is your chance to become a Tips participant and help prevent what happened to you from happening to others.
Terrie H., Tips participant
“I truly feel blessed to be a part of the whole thing and do something to help someone from having to go through what I had to go through.”
Roosevelt S., Tips participant
“What’s been overwhelming for me, honestly, is the people who come up to me and say, ‘Thank you. Because of you, I quit smoking.’”
Terrie H., Tips participant
“If people see me and know a little bit about my story, they might have second thoughts about even starting to smoke.”
Shawn W., Tips participant
“Over the years when I smoked, I never considered the effect that my smoking had on my family.”