WPhA Endorses the Wyoming Program for Quitting Chewing
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The Wyoming Program for Quitting Chewing-a successful graduated nicotine replacement
regimen for snuff users, was sanctioned at the summer convention. The program was
presented by Dan Schreiner a pharmacist and store owner in Glenrock. The program
has been extremely successful for several years and is designed for the pharmacist,
dentist, or dental hygienist to use in helping their patients to kick the tobacco
chewing habit. The brochure acknowledges the difficulties faced when attempting
to quit chewing and addresses the four main factors needed to kick the spit tobacco
habit-desire, tapered nicotine levels, taste of replacement products, and mimicking
the physical habits of chewing.
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Newsletters
February 2007
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In addition to providing a non-tobacco replacement product Bacc-Off, a mixing pad,
and labels, the kit brochure outlines in detail suggested mixing ratios and quitting
timetables for an easy transition to a nicotine free life within 6 to 9 weeks. The
state tobacco quitting programs will be running ads plugging the successes of the
graduated nicotine replacement programs and are printing a new pamphlet on quitting
spit tobacco. One of the testimonials is a "graduate" of the Wyoming Program for
Quitting Chewing. She is 40 and had chewed heavily for 31 years before starting
the program in January. She quit within the 6 weeks timetable and it "was no big
deal."
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The success of this inexpensive program seems to hinge on a local professional recommendation
and the availability of the product Bacc-Off with the initial packet, along with
an investment by the quitter. The packets will be distributed in packs of 5 to pharmacies
for $3 each and two cans of Bacc-Off are to be supplied by the pharmacy in the packet
retailing for $10. Kits to dental offices will contain 2 cans of the product and
additional Bacc-Off can be obtained from the local pharmacy. The WPhA will receive
at least $1.50 from each kit sold to pharmacies and a sign for the program will
be attached. Ideally if pharmacists could market the program to the dentists they
know it should be most successful that way.
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Direct order information for Bacc-Off is available from www.dipstop.com, with the 4
dozen price being shipped prepaid at $1.60 a can. Deer Creek Drug, Box 940, Glenrock,
82637 (or fax 307-436- 8933) will ship any amount of assorted product to you at
that price plus postage. A box of 12 cans comes in a self merchandising display
with the straight ("like" Copenhagen flavor) selling 3 to 1 over the "like Skoal"
flavor.
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