Change for Life: Tobacco-Free Recovery NC

A coalition of behavioral health, healthcare & disability service organizations working to implement a best-practice, tobacco-free culture of care. From 2021-2025 peer agencies met to learn from each other in how to help their clients succeed, tobacco-free!

See past meeting recordings here. 

Find free help in YOUR county

Regional & local tobacco prevention staff help you implement tobacco-free policies and treatment.

Click your county to find yours.

 

Lead Counties
 

Statewide Resources

  • You Quit, Two Quit– tobacco use treatment integration and policy change for organizations that serve reproductive aged, pregnant, or postpartum people.
  • Tobacco Use Treatment Integration; Tobacco-Free Campus Policy RoadMap and QuitlineNC – Kim Bayha
  • Youth Tobacco Treatment – Nnenne Asi-Emerson 
NC map with 10 regions marked

REGION 1 AND 2

Tobin Lee

tobin@mountainwise.org

828-349-2480

Region 3

David Willard
david.willard@apphealth.com
828-457-2110

REGION 4

Brianna Ramgeet

brianna.ramgeet@mecklenburgcountync.gov

980-467-3451

Mecklenburg County Public Health

Jasmine Simmons

Jasmine.Simmons@mecklenburgcountync.gov

NC map with 10 regions marked

Region 5

Jasmine Sturdivant

jsturdivant@dconc.gov

Durham County Department of Public Health

Olivia Cunningham
ocunningham@dconc.gov

Orange County Health Department

Rita Krosner
rkrosner@orangecountync.gov
Tobacco Prevention and Control Coordinator

Region 6

David Robertson
910-433-3614
drobertson@cumberlandcountync.gov

Region 7

Deidre Sully
Deidre.Sully@wake.gov
919-417-3677

Wake County

Michaela Hoenig
michaela.hoenig@wake.gov
919-212-9395

Region 8

Ernest Watts
ernest.watts@hth.co.robeson.nc.us
910-334-1488

Region 9 and 10

Teresa Beardsley
Teresa.Beardsley@arhs-nc.org
252-340-0407