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Stop paying $8,156 per smoking employee per year.

FreeAir Coach is a clinically-grounded smoking cessation benefit your employees actually use — built by a board-certified pulmonologist, priced at $79 per employee per year. The math, frankly, is embarrassing for the status quo.

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The hidden line item on every benefits budget

Smoking employees cost employers an average of $8,156 more per year than non-smokers — driven by absenteeism, presenteeism, smoking breaks, healthcare claims, and life-insurance loading. (Source: SHRM analysis of Berman et al., Tobacco Control.)

Yet most companies offer smokers either nothing or a generic EAP module that no one logs into. The result: a budget line nobody owns, and employees who keep smoking.

What FreeAir Coach delivers as a benefit

ROI Calculator

Enter your numbers. We’ll compute your annual cost of inaction.

U.S. adult smoking rate is ~11.5% (CDC, 2024). Industry-specific rates vary — construction & manufacturing trend higher; tech & finance lower.
Default reflects SHRM/Berman et al. estimate. Your real number may include healthcare-claim loading, life-insurance premiums, and absenteeism.
Conservative estimate. Published chatbot-cessation meta-analyses report ~13–18% sustained-abstinence rates at 6–12 months (Luo et al., 2023). Unaided quit-attempt rate is ~5%.

Estimates only. Actual outcomes depend on enrollment, engagement, smoker baseline, and many other factors. FreeAir Coach has not been independently clinically validated and does not guarantee any specific quit rate. Individual results vary.

The 90-Day Pilot Program

Test FreeAir Coach with up to 100 of your employees for 90 days at a fixed-fee, refundable pilot rate. If engagement is below our published benchmarks at the end of the pilot, you don’t continue and we refund the deployment fee.

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Enterprise & 1,000+ employees

For deployments of 1,000 or more employees, we offer custom volume pricing, SSO integration (SAML / Okta / Azure AD), bespoke aggregate analytics, and dedicated account management. Healthcare systems, manufacturers, transportation, construction, and unionized workforces are typical fit.

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Common employer questions

What employee data does the employer see?

Aggregate, anonymous enrollment metrics only — total enrolled, total active, total quit-date-set. We do not provide individual usage data, craving logs, or AI Coach transcripts to employers under any circumstances. This is a hard architectural commitment, not a policy you can override with a contract.

Is this HIPAA-covered?

FreeAir Coach is a direct-to-consumer wellness application and is not a HIPAA-covered entity. Health information is collected and stored on the employee’s device. We are subject to the FTC Health Breach Notification Rule (16 CFR Part 318). For employer programs, we offer a Business Associate Agreement on request to satisfy compliance teams who prefer one in place.

Can we add this to our existing wellness platform?

Yes. We support deep-link enrollment from any wellness platform that can issue a unique access code per employee. Common integrations: Virgin Pulse, Limeade, Wellable, Rally, and direct deployment alongside an EAP.

What if an employee already uses nicotine replacement therapy or Chantix?

FreeAir Coach is designed to complement pharmacotherapy, not replace it. Combination behavioral + pharmacological therapy is the clinical gold standard for cessation. We educate users about NRT, varenicline, and bupropion options and direct them to consult their physician for prescriptions.

Is there a minimum contract?

The 90-day pilot has no long-term commitment. Annual enterprise contracts are typical for full deployments. We do not have multi-year lock-ins.

Do you have case studies?

FreeAir Coach is in early access — we’re actively recruiting our first 3 employer pilot partners and offering charter pricing in exchange for permission to publish anonymized aggregate outcomes. Email admin@freeaircoach.com if you’d like to be considered.

Smoking is the most expensive line item nobody on your benefits team is tracking.

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