In Montana, 27% of adults have a disability yet 38% of adults who are current tobacco users have a disability. Limited research has been done to analyze the reach and quit rate among people with disabilities participating in tobacco cessation programs.

This abstract’s purpose is to assess the reach of a rural state’s quit line and its impact on tobacco cessation among adults with disability.

The FY 2019 Montana Tobacco Quit Line (QL) intake survey and outcome report, which includes five disability questions, will be used to analyze reach and tobacco quit rate, respectively.

The QL is an evidence-based tobacco cessation program. Of the 2,720 total phone intakes in FY 2019, almost half (47%) of the callers identified as having at least one disability. Most counties (49/56) had at least one participant with a disability. Outcome data will be available in April to determine quit rate, coaching call completion, and preferred medication type based on disability status.

Although tobacco use disparity exists among Montana adults with disability, data suggests awareness and use of the QL’s services is surpassing the expected reach among adults with disabilities across the state. Outcome data will provide insight into the effectiveness of quit line services comparing callers with disability and those without disability.

The results should be used to generate a model for how other states can successfully reach people with disability and, if outcome disparities exist, as a basis to determine programmatic barriers and implement inclusion solutions to increase equitable tobacco cessation rates.