National Working Group for ACTTION
(Access to Coverage of Tobacco Treatment In Our Nation)
Partnership for Prevention
Shaping Policies | Improving Health
2010 Tobacco Cessation in the News
September
- Personalized Cessation is On the Way – Researchers at UPenn Start Clinical Trial
- Smoking Cessation Computer Games and Mobile Apps
- Delayed Quitters
August
- Expanding Coverage: Medicare Offers New Tobacco Cessation Counseling Benefit
- The E-Cigarette Debate Continues – Drug Delivery Device or Alternative to Cigarettes?
- New Cigarette Tests May Customize Quitting
- Medicaid and Quitlines: A Toolbox for Expanding Medicaid Benefits and Gaining Reimbursement for Quit
- Suppressing Your Thoughts of Cigarettes: An Ineffective Smoking Cessation Technique
- North Carolina is Leading the Way for Hospital Smoking Cessation Efforts
- NSTEP®: Helping to Make Smokeless Tobacco a Thing of the Past in American Baseball
- Using Snus for Smoking Cessation: More Likely to Quit But More Likely to Stay Addicted
- Smoking Cessation after Diagnosis with Lung Cancer: Improved Prognosis and Reductions in Death
- A Statewide Contest Encourages Hoosiers to Kick Their Smoking Habit
- Innovative Solutions: Using the iPhone to Help Smokers Quit
- Motivational Interviewing: An Effective Approach to Smoking Cessation
July
- Making Smoking-Cessation Counseling a “Norm” for Oral Care Professionals
- Thoracic Surgeons Use “Teachable Moments” to Help Smokers Quit
- A Culturally Tailored Tobacco Cessation Program: Helping LGBT Members “Call It Quits”
- Saving Lives and Money - Helping People on Medicaid Quit Tobacco
- Electronic Health Records
- Raising Prices May Increase Youth Smoking Cessation
- Study Debunks Claim that Smoking is an Effective Stress Management Tool
- Surgery: A Unique Opportunity to Stop Smoking
- Promotion of Smokeless Tobacco: Is This an Effective Harm Reduction Strategy?
- On the Horizon: Personalized Smoking Cessation
- National Smoking Cessation Campaign Targets Firefighters
- Health Care Reform Implementation: Defining Comprehensive Tobacco Cessation Services
June
- California: New Legislation Would Require Health Insurance Polices to Cover Tobacco Cessation
- A National Survey Suggests Tobacco Cessation Efforts May Not Be Pervasive Among Health Professionals
- Smoking Cessation and Schizophrenia: Bupropion May Help
- An AAFP Pilot Project Makes Tobacco Cessation Activities a Daily Norm
- Study Seeks Adult Smokers Nationwide for a Free, Online Smoking-Cessation Study
- More Can be Done to Help Smokers Quit
- NCI Funded Smoking Cessation Training
- Providing Resources for the Oncology Community on Tobacco Cessation
- Smoking Cessation in Severe Mental Illness - What Works?
- Harnessing the Power of TXT Messaging to Promote Smoking Cessation
- Quitting Smoking After Bone Surgery May Speed Up Recovery
- The Reduction of Tuberculosis Risks by Smoking Cessation
- Quitting Smoking Before Pregnancy Could Save Babies’ Lives
- Please Comment on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Tobacco Cessation Proposal
- Indiana Charges Ahead on Cessation
May
- World No Tobacco Day is May 31, 2010
- Smoking Cessation in Schizophrenics
- Tobacco Cessation and Mental Illness
- Three Effective Ways to Quit Smoking Using Chantix
- Tobacco Cessation and Tea Filters
- Kiosk Acts as a Bilingual Decision Aid for Quitting Smoking
- Incentive to Quit
- E-Cigarettes and Cessation: Helpful but Unreliable, Study Says
- Nicotine Vaccine Research
April
- Toolkit Helps to Evaluate Youth Smoking Cessation Programs
- Smokeless Tobacco Safer?
- Genes Affect Smoking Behavior
- CDC’s Tobacco Control Report to Help States Develop and Implement Plans to Reduce Tobacco Use
- Will quitting smoking help promote health…after a lung cancer diagnosis?
- Consumer-Oriented Smoking Cessation Tools Podcast
- Results from the Adult Tobacco Survey
- Recent Smoking Cessation Trends
- New Study on Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Cessation
- Pharmacists in Australia will soon be able to help more smokers quit
- U.S. Quitlines at a Crossroads
March
- North Carolina Youth Smoking Hits All-time Low
- Drug Plus Weight Counseling Helps Women Quit Smoking
- Smokers Who Quit See Improved Artery Health Within Year, UW Study Shows
- No Smoking Day
- Utah Increases Tobacco Tax by $1
- Free Blackberry Helps You Quit Smoking
February
- Florida Smoker NOT Getting All She Had Hoped For
- Cessation Causing Healthier Hearts for HIV Patients
- Underserved Populations Need Research and Treatment Too
- Is the System Underperforming on Tobacco Cessation?
- Two-thirds of U.S. Support $1 Tobacco Tax Hike
- Guam’s Tobacco Tax Victory
- Third-Hand Smoke – The Other Cancer Threat
- HHS Secretary and CDC Director Discuss New Recovery Act Community Prevention and Wellness Groups
- A Smoke-Free World?
- State Preemption of Local Smoke-Free Laws in Government Work Sites, Private Work Sites, Restaurants
Coverage of Call for ACTTION/Working Group
Letter to Senator Tom Harkin
Jan. 30, 2009 - Letter from Partnership for Prevention regarding preservation of funding for tobacco cessation programs in proposed economic stimulus bill
Report Calls for Greater Access to Smoking-Cessation Programs
Dec. 15, 2008 - American Medical News
Mr. Obama's Struggle With Smoking
Nov. 28, 2008 - Washington Post, Letter-to-the-Editor from Corinne Husten
Smokers Could Be Quitters by 2020
Nov. 19, 2008 - MarketWatch.com via Medill News Service
Other Relevant News
Congress Plans Incentives for Healthy Habits
May 10, 2009 - New York Times
Experts in Government, Public Health, Public Policy and Science Outline Blueprint for Reducing Death and Disease From Tobacco in the United States
Feb 25, 2009 - MarketWatch
The Tobacco Paradox
Feb. 21, 2009 - National Journal
Walmart Offers $9 Smoking Cessation Starter Pack
Jan. 15, 2009 - Walmart Press Release
Remove the Barriers from Tobacco Cessation
Jan. 5, 2009 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, opinion editorial by local tobacco cessation expert
In The News RSS
- Sep 09, 2010
Personalized Cessation is On the Way – Researchers at UPenn Start Clinical Trial
Read the full story - Sep 08, 2010
Smoking Cessation Computer Games and Mobile Apps
Read the full story - Sep 02, 2010
Delayed Quitters
Read the full story - Aug 30, 2010
Expanding Coverage: Medicare Offers New Tobacco Cessation Counseling Benefit
Read the full story
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Key Dates RSS
- November 12-13, 2010: Treating Tobacco Dependence in Mental Health Settings
- November 6-10, 2010: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
- October 30-4, 2010: American College of Chest Physicians: Chest 2010
- October 28-28, 2010: Multi-State Collaborative for Health Systems Change 2010 Conference
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