You can avoid the Tobacco Surcharge and have it removed if you enroll and complete five coaching calls with a Quit for Life Coach; the surcharge will be removed after the HR Service Center receives a report from the Quit for Life Program identifying those participants who have completed five coaching calls.

The plan will review tobacco cessation completion reports twice per year (approximately mid-June of the current year and mid-January of the following year) and provide a retroactive reimbursement via payroll for any Tobacco Surcharge amounts paid after January 1^st of the plan year as soon as administratively practicable.

If you have already completed or will complete the cessation program for the current plan year and you have still used tobacco products within the prior 12-month period of Annual Enrollment for the next plan year, you will still answer “Yes” to the tobacco-use question. In order to avoid the surcharge for the next plan year, you must re-enroll and complete five additional coaching calls with a Quit Coach by December 31st of the following plan year. If you complete these five additional coaching calls by December 31st of the following plan year, the tobacco surcharge will be retroactively reimbursed to you via payroll for all surcharge amounts paid after January 1st of that plan year.