If you've been thinking about "kicking the habit," resources are available today to help you succeed.

E.ON U.S.'s "Well...Stop!" program helps employees, retirees, and their spouses become smoke-free. "Well...Stop!" allows you to choose the smoking cessation program or technique — patches, gum, group support programs, hypnosis — that will work best for you. The Company will reimburse you for the cost of the program up to a maximum available benefit.

For details about the reimbursement, as well as nicotine replacement therapy and behavior modification programs, check out the "Well...Stop!" section on E.ON U.S.'s Wellness website.

If you'd like to research other opportunities, the National Cancer Institute's new website — www.smokefree.gov — is dedicated to helping smokers quit. This commercial-free site provides a variety of media to help smokers quit, including online instant messaging, a Web-based quitting guide, smoking quit line (1-888-44U-QUIT), and self-help guides. Targeted self-help guides are available for special populations, including Spanish speakers, African-American smokers, smokers over the age of 50, and smokers who have recently quit.

The website features a nicotine addiction test, a craving journal, and details on medications that can help smokers manage withdrawal symptoms. The site also provides the phone numbers and websites for quit lines within each state via an interactive U.S. map.

We strongly urge you to evaluate programs and services, in conjunction with your medical professional, to determine what smoking cessation tool will work best for you.

E.ON U.S.'s medical claims administrators — Anthem and UnitedHealthcare — provide information on smoking cessation and many other health-related topics on their websites and through their toll-free nurse advice lines — available to members 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you are an Anthem or UHC member, access information at:

• www.anthem.com
  Anthem's 24-Hour NurseLine: 1-800-337-4770
• www.myuhc.com
  UnitedHealthcare's Optum Nurseline: 1-800-846-4678