Healthways Announces Three-Year Agreement to Help Wyoming Residents Quit Tobacco Products

Partnership with Wyoming Department of Health Provides Access to Healthways’ QuitNet® Comprehensive Program to All Wyoming Residents

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY) today announced a three-year agreement effective July 1, 2009 with the Wyoming Department of Health to offer QuitNet tobacco cessation services to Wyoming residents. The QuitNet Comprehensive program combines phone and online professional counseling, access to the largest online support network in the world and subsidized or free tobacco cessation medication.

“Since 1995, QuitNet has helped over a million people around the world quit tobacco”

“We’re excited because this agreement increases access to tobacco cessation services for our residents, which we are confident will result in a higher cessation rate than we have been able to achieve without it,” said Kathi Wilson, Wyoming Department of Health tobacco cessation specialist. “We have one of the most thorough tobacco cessation programs in the country, and this partnership will allow us to reach even more people with our program.”

The program is available for Wyoming residents at www.wy.quitnet.com or by calling 1-800-QUIT-NOW.

“Since 1995, QuitNet has helped over a million people around the world quit tobacco,” said Ben R. Leedle, Jr., Healthways chief executive officer. “We are pleased to team up with the Wyoming Department of Health to offer tobacco cessation support to the entire state of Wyoming. This agreement will play an important part in improving the health of Wyoming residents.”

QuitNet helps individuals quit smoking and stay tobacco-free through proven scientific methods and online and telephonic support services. Its services are built on the approaches and practices recommended by the U.S. Surgeon General: personalized content, expert counseling, social support and help selecting and using FDA-approved tobacco cessation medications.

QuitNet’s website hosts a thriving online community of tens of thousands of tobacco users and former tobacco users across the globe that supports each other with practical tips and celebrations of milestones. In addition to this global community, the website provides a suite of interactive tools and features members can use 24 hours a day, seven days per week, for as long as they need it.

About Wyoming Department of Health

Our mission is to promote, protect, and enhance the health of all Wyoming citizens. The Wyoming Department of Health is the primary state agency for providing health and human services. We administer programs maintaining the health and safety of all citizens of Wyoming and our primary approach in solving health problems is prevention.

About Healthways

Healthways is the leading provider of specialized, comprehensive solutions to help millions of people maintain or improve their health and well-being and, as a result, reduce overall costs. Healthways’ solutions are designed to help healthy individuals stay healthy, mitigate and slow the progression to disease associated with family or lifestyle risk factors and promote the best possible health for those already affected by disease. Our proven, evidence-based programs provide highly specific and personalized interventions for each individual in a population, irrespective of age or health status, and are delivered to consumers by phone, mail, internet and face-to-face interactions, both domestically and internationally. Healthways also provides a national, fully accredited complementary and alternative Health Provider Network, offering convenient access to individuals who seek health services outside of, and in conjunction with, the traditional healthcare system. For more information, please visit www.healthways.com.