Clear the Air: Smoking Cessation Program
Smoking cessation can help improve your employees’ health, increase workplace productivity, and control health care costs. Whether you have 25 or 2,000 employees, you can take advantage of this statewide smoking cessation program from the Collaboration for Cessation Change.
Organized by the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Agency, the Indiana departments of Health & Insurance, Pfizer and others, this public-private initiative is designed to help Indiana employers discourage and reduce employee tobacco use. The program extends beyond employees to assist spouses and dependants as well.
Did you Know? The CDC estimates that an individual smoker costs his/her employer $3,391 per year in direct medical costs and lost productivity.
Sign-up for a Smoking Cessation Program to receive:
- An employer toolkit to help your employees “Beat the Park”
- Discount coupons for Chantix, a pharmaceutical drug that has been used to help people quit using tobacco (while supplies last)
- Employee access to the Indiana Tobacco Quitline and other resources as part of a wellness benefits package (e.g. tobacco cessation coaching sessions with a trained “Quit Coach”)
Gregory & Appel’s employee benefits specialists can help you develop and implement a smoking cessation program that's right for your company. Contact us to schedule a free session.
Sheri Alexander, FLMI, GBA, HIA is a Senior Vice President and serves as the Employee Benefits Division Manager for Gregory & Appel. Sheri has over 30 years of experience in the employee benefits consulting and brokerage field with primary focuses in the healthcare industry (hospitals, physician groups and senior living) and higher education (colleges and universities).
In addition to her extensive experience with traditional employee benefits plans, Sheri has expertise in alternative funding arrangements, direct-contracting, managed care organizations, provider excess risk placements, on-site and near-site clinics, and value based benefits design.
Sheri is an active member of the Board of Directors of the Little Red Door Cancer Agency, the Cancer Support Community of Central Indiana and Gregory & Appel. She currently sits on the Advisory Boards of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and United Healthcare. She is a longstanding member of the local and national CEBS (Certified Employee Benefits Specialist) chapters as well as the State and National Associations of Health Underwriters. Sheri is also a member of ISHHRA (Indiana Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration) and the Executive Women in Healthcare chapter in Indianapolis. She was recently named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 2011 Who’s Who in Health Care and Benefits.
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