Become a Freedom From Smoking® Facilitator

Be a part of their quit journey.

The American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking® Facilitator Training is designed for public health professionals, healthcare workers, or anyone with an interest in supporting their fellow community members in going tobacco-free. As a Freedom From Smoking® facilitator, you have the unique opportunity to serve your community by helping people break their addiction!

Who Makes a Good Facilitator

If you are already involved in health education or healthcare, you may be an excellent facilitator because of your experience and interest in healthy behaviors and lifestyles. You might even be a successful graduate from our Freedom From Smoking® program! Your tobacco-free lifestyle or personal victory over smoking could be the turning point that inspires others to choose a healthier life. 

We seek individuals who are: 

• Empathetic, motivational, and optimistic
• Organized and have good communication and interpersonal skills
• Willing to be adaptable to support those who may be struggling with their quit journey
• Tobacco-free and nicotine-free for 12 months or longer (including e-cigarettes, vaping devices and non-tobacco oral nicotine products)

About Facilitator Training

The Freedom From Smoking® Facilitator Training course is designed to educate individuals on the basics of tobacco use, proven-effective strategies to help people quit, mastery of the science-backed evidence-based Freedom From Smoking® program curriculum and enhanced facilitation skills to host group cessation classes within their communities and beyond.