Quitting tobacco, nicotine, and vaping is a process. Whether you are thinking about quitting, are not yet ready to quit, or have already quit, Project Filter can help you each step of the way.
About nicotine
Quitting smoking and other tobacco products can prevent disease and disability including cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and rheumatoid arthritis. Within minutes of quitting the body will begin to heal itself and you will gain many health benefits.
What are the negative health effects of nicotine?
- Nicotine is addictive
- Nicotine is harmful to developing fetuses
- Nicotine can harm adolescent brain development, which continues into the early to mid-20s
What's inside an e-cigarette?
- Chemicals that are added to e-liquids and others that are produced during the heating/vaporizing process
- Vapor aerosols that contain nicotine
- Ultrafine particles
- Flavorings such as diacetyl, a chemical linked to serious lung disease
- Volatile organic compounds such as benzene, which is found in car exhaust
- Heavy metals, such as nickel, tin, and lead
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Project Filter is Idaho's tobacco prevention and cessation program. We offer free resources and support to help people quit smoking, vaping and chewing. Project Filter offers free Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) in the form of nicotine patches, gum and lozenges, to help people on their journey to quit commercial tobacco. We work closely with local public health districts (internal link to PHD site) all over the state to ensure free tobacco cessation resources and classes are available to people across Idaho.
- Get up to 8 weeks of FREE nicotine patches, gum, or lozenges for eligible participants
- Get personalized support from a trained quit coach any time, day or night (available in Spanish and 150 other languages)
- Sign up for eCoach and get personalized text or e-mail messages to help with your quit attempt
- Sign up to get FREE nicotine patches, gum, or lozenges
- Join an online community with resources on how to quit and stay tobacco-free. Get tips on how to help others quit smoking, chewing, or vaping
- My Life My Quit - Quit vaping, smoking, or chewing for youth up to ages 18 through phone, chat, or text at mylifemyquit.com.
- Pregnancy Program - Receive up to $65 for participation in an expanded 10-call program
- American Indian Program - Speak with Native American coaches with sacred tobacco knowledge
- Chronic Disease Program - Learn how quitting can help manage chronic conditions, like disease, diabetes and high blood pressure
- Behavioral Health Program - Receive compassionate and intensive support for those experiencing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, ADHD, PTSD, and/or substance use disorder.
Funding opportunity – now open!
Project Filter and the Women’s Health Check (WHC) Program are accepting subgrant applications from Idaho clinics, health systems, or chronic-disease prevention focused community organizations that serve rural populations to administer patient enrollment into the WHC program and to implement tobacco screening protocols within their facilities.
The primary goals are to recruit and enroll eligible patients for the WHC program, while implementing evidence-based interventions for tobacco screening and cessation.
The programs plan to fund up to seven (7) organizations under this announcement. Funding per subgrantee organization will be up to $40,100; full budget is contingent on availability of funds. The program has an estimated start date of January 20, 2026, ending on June 29, 2026, with amendments possible to continue this work through June 29, 2027.
The primary goal of this funding opportunity it to increase the reach of breast/cervical cancer screening and tobacco use disorder screening for eligible individuals.
- Cancer and Tobacco Screening within Health Systems Pilot Funding Opportunity
- Cancer and Tobacco Screening within Health Systems Pilot Application
- Cancer and Tobacco Screening within Health Systems Pilot Budget Template
- Cancer and Tobacco Screening within Health Systems Pilot Funding Opportunity Questions & Answers (Q&A) Document (updated 12/22/2025)
By applying, eligible applicants acknowledge the following requirements:
- Applicants spending $750,000.00 or more in federal funds during the Subgrant fiscal year shall have a Single Audit performed according to 2 CFR 200.500-521 (previously OMB A-133) and shall provide proof of spending.
- Applicants shall comply with subaward and executive compensation reporting requirements as required by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA).
Please email daly.hull@dhw.idaho.gov and ashtin.glodt1@dhw.idaho.gov . All questions received, along with responses will be posted to this website in the Q&A document linked above.
Applications are due by December 31, 2025, by 5:00 pm (MT). Email completed applications to Daly Hull at daly.hull@dhw.idaho.gov and Ashtin Glodt at ashtin.glodt1@dhw.idaho.gov.