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Reports

Build a Financial Infrastructure: Health Plan Benefits and Provider Reimbursement
This report combines evidence-based recommendations with the experiences of the Pacific Center on Health and Tobacco (PCHT), a consortium of five western states (California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Hawaii) concerning tobacco cessation benefits and provider reimbursement. It is designed to guide planning and decision-making by states and other groups that are working to implement tobacco cessation programs. Also available are two summaries: (1) Health Insurance Benefits for Treatment of Tobacco Dependence and (2) Invest in Tobacco Cessation for a Healthy, Productive Workforce.

Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Cessation: Next Steps for Tobacco Control
This report provides an overview of the PCHT vision for a comprehensive approach for a statewide tobacco cessation program, outlining the case for a comprehensive approach, steps for building a state program, and links to other PCHT reports and resources to assist implementation.

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
This report from the committee on the Quality of Health Care in America makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap, recommends a redesign of the American health care system, and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others.

Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health
Healthy People 2010 is an outline of a comprehensive, nationwide health promotion and disease prevention agenda. It is designed to serve as a roadmap for improving the health of all people in the United States during the first decade of the 21st Century.

Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health
Meeting summaries from the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, which coordinates Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) research, educational programs, and other smoking and health efforts with similar activities of other federal, state, local, and private agencies.

Linking a Network: Integrate Quitlines with Health Care Systems
The Linking a Network report describes a new, emerging model for quitlines. In this model, quitlines expand beyond only providing services and take on a broader role as a centralized state resource for providing quitting information, using new cost-sharing approaches with private insurance to provide services, and serve as a referral center linking callers with health plan and community programs.

National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation
A report prepared by the Subommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths; Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan on Tobacco Cessation, proposes a series of action steps (including Federal initiatives and public-private partnership opportunities) to promote tobacco cessation.

Plans and Priorities for Cancer Research
Annually, the National Cancer Institute outlines the nation's investment in cancer research and includes a section regarding tobacco use and cessation.

Preventive Care: A National Profile on Use, Disparities, and Health Benefits
This report demonstrates that there is significant underuse of effective preventive care in the United States, resulting in lost lives, unnecessary poor health, and inefficient use of health care dollars. All of the services examined in this report are extremely cost effective: they all provide an excellent return on investment. It is a national imperative to make these and other cost-effective preventive services affordable and accessible for all Americans.

Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality
In this report, the committee recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and other groups in the public and private sectors should focus on to improve the quality of health care delivered to all Americans.

Reports of the Surgeon General
A library of Surgeon General's reports addressing tobacco use in the United States, including the 1990 edition which focused on tobacco cessation in the nation.

State Legislated Action on Tobacco Issues (SLATI)
From the American Lung Association, this report documents progress in statewide clean indoor air laws, cigarette excise taxes, and regulation of Internet tobacco sales. SLATI also chronicles state tobacco program funding and Master Settlement Agreement funds.

Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation and Control (PDF)
A report from the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ) that includes the effectiveness of community- and population-based interventions to increase consumer demand for and implementation of effective cessation interventions.

Women and Smoking: A National and State-by-State Report Card
The first comprehensive assessment of women’s smoking-related health conditions and policies that are proven to help reduce smoking among women and girls. The report grades and ranks each state and the nation against ten-year national health objectives set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 prevention agenda, and evaluates the strength of state tobacco control policies.

Women, Tobacco, and Cancer: An Agenda for the 21st Century
A report of the Women, Tobacco, and Cancer Working Group that includes a series of recommendations toward creating an achievable solution to the problem of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality among women.

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Published Materials

6 Core Strategies for Increasing the Use of Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Treatments Report
In 2006, three Consumer Demand Roundtables were conducted to begin to investigate consumer demand as it related to tobacco cessation and to generate initial recommendations for the field. The report, 6 Core Strategies for Increasing the Use of Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Treatments, summarizes the key concepts and ideas that emerged from the Roundtables discussions for building demand among smokers for proven tobacco cessation products and services.

Achievements in Tobacco Cessation: Case Studies
This U.S. Public Health Service publication from June 2000 captured a series of brief case studies from Maine and Massachusetts to Oregon and Washington.

A National Blueprint for Disseminating and Implementing Evidence-Based Clinical and Community Strategies to Promote Tobacco-Use Cessation Download PDF
This blueprint seeks to improve the nation's health and reduce tobacco-related illness and death by implementing evidence-based clinical and community strategies shown to increase tobacco-use cessation in the United States.

Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—2007
An evidence-based guide to help states plan and establish effective tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use, updated edition. Describes an integrated programmatic structure for implementing interventions proven to be effective and provides the recommended level of state investment to reach these goals and reduce tobacco use in each state.

Cancer Facts and Figures 2003 Download PDF
An annual publication from American Cancer Society, this year's edition features a special section on tobacco cessation.

Coverage of Smoking Cessation Treatment by Union Health and Welfare Funds
[Barbeau E, Li Y, et al. American Journal of Public Health 2001; 91(9):1412-1415]. This article presents the results of a survey to determine the level of insurance coverage for smoking cessation treatment and factors associated with coverage among health and welfare funds affiliated with a large labor union. Purchase a copy of this article.

First 5 Community Guide for Supporting Effective Tobacco Cessation Services
Based on best practices, this guide from the Center for Health Improvement includes recommendations, case studies, and sample documents to assist commissions in their efforts to help pregnant women and parents quit smoking.

Twelve Facts to Help Dispel the Myths about Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRTs) and Nicotine (PDF)
Developed by NTCC to ensure that cessation information and communications contain accurate information on nicotine and its role in quitting smoking.

National Blueprint for Action: Youth and Young Adult Tobacco Use Cessation or Download PDF
Published in the Spring of 2000 by the Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (YTCC), this blueprint was developed as a consensus document to guide decisions regarding funding research and programs related to youth tobacco-use cessation; to reflect common goals and objectives among national organizations that fund such efforts; to help ensure that funding plans and programs across organizations build the strongest possible national efforts to support youth cessation; and to coordinate funding efforts.

National Tobacco Cessation Collaborative 2007 Update
This booklet provides an update on the activities of the National Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (NTCC) and key accomplishments over the past year.

Preventive Services: Helping States Improve Mandates
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Developed by the Partnership for Prevention, this guide uses available evidence and assistance from health plans, health researchers, and voluntary health associations to aid state legislators and governors to refine their existing preventive service mandates and improve utilization of effective preventive care among their state populations.

Proceedings of a Conference on What Works to Influence Cessation in the General Population
This publication shares research and statistics on cessation at the population level. It relies heavily on representative surveys of smoking behaviors in state and national populations in order to define measures of cessation that can be used to assess the effects of tobacco control programs or public policy changes on smoking behavior. Those measures are then used to identify who is quitting, who is being successful, who is being exposed to various tobacco control interventions, and which tobacco interventions are working well.

Promoting Telephone-Based Tobacco Cessation Services: A collaborative approach to moving the promotion dialogue forward
A fact sheet produced by the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC).

Quitline Basics: Telephone-Based Cessation Services that Help Tobacco Users Quit
A fact sheet produced by the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC).

Web-Assisted Tobacco Interventions (WATI): The Future of Tobacco Cessation?
A fact sheet produced by the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC).

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Presentations

Cessation Services in American Indian Communities Conference Poster
This poster presentation outlines tobacco treatment recommendations specifically for American Indians. Presented at the 2007 American Public Health Association Meeting.

Evaluation of a Tobacco Cessation Initiative for Pregnant Women Presentation
This presentation includes process and outcome evaluation results from the Smoke-Free Families Prenatal Demonstration Projects in Oregon, Maine, and Oklahoma. Presented at the 2007 National Conference on Tobacco or Health.

National Partnership Impact Evaluation Conference Poster
This poster describes how the work of The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit has influenced policy, providers, and pregnant smokers and exemplifies what can be achieved through a large, national collaboration with shared goals. Presented at the 2007 National Conference on Tobacco or Health.

National Partnership Impact Evaluation Conference Presentation
This presentation describes how the work of The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit has influenced policy, providers, and pregnant smokers and exemplifies what can be achieved through a large, national collaboration with shared goals. Presented at the 2007 National Conference on Tobacco or Health.

The Science and Practice of Perinatal Tobacco Use Cessation Presentation
An overview of delivering the 5 A's in clinical practice and new information on pharmacotherapy during pregnancy. Presented on a 2008 webcast sponsored by the National Association of State and County Health Officials.