Submit tobacco cessation waiver by March 31 to waive additional premium for entire 2025 plan year

As a reminder, employees (and their spouse, if covered on a Purdue medical plan) who certify as tobacco users — a person who has used tobacco including cigars, cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco or any other tobacco product in the past 12 months — during open enrollment each year will pay an additional $1,500 tobacco-user premium on their medical benefits. Full or partial premium waivers can be obtained by completing an approved tobacco cessation program.

Completed program certificates from an approved tobacco cessation program submitted by March 31 will waive the tobacco-user additional premium for the entire 2025 plan year. If the form is submitted after March 31, the premium will be waived for the remainder of the 2025 plan year.

More information is available on the “How to Waive the Tobacco-User Additional Premium” webpage.

Use the “How Much Will You Save?” calculator provided by smokefree.gov to see personalized cost savings results based only on the number of cigarettes smoked per day.