The Louisiana Tobacco Control Initiative (LA-TCI) provides FREE, evidence-based smoking cessation services at Lallie Kemp Medical Center.  Designated staff member Debby Durapau, MS, CTTS offers several quit smoking options for patients and employees, including:

• Individual face-to-face behavioral counseling; sessions upon request
• Group behavioral counseling; classes held serveral times a month call the number below to register
• Referral to the state’s Quitline for FREE telephone or web-based counseling
• Referal to the Louisiana Smoking Cessation Trust program for FREE counseling and medication*
• Assistance with obtaining a prescription for cessation medication from a person’s primary care doctor help them quit 

Click here for more information about the LA-TCI, or you may contact your TCI Cessation Specialist directly using the information below.

Debby Durapau, MS, CTTS
Office Location: Six-Plex building Door 16
Office Number: 985-878-1362
Email address: ddurap@lsuhsc.edu

*To qualify for the FREE Lousiana Smoking Cessation Trust program a person must attest to having begun smoking before September 1, 1988, and be a Louisiana resident.