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April 2010 Tobacco Control in the News

Toolkit Helps to Evaluate Youth Smoking Cessation Programs

Helping Young Smokers Quit, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation directed by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers, has developed a youth smoking cessation program evaluation toolkit. The toolkit gives youth smoking cessation program leaders a mechanism for evaluating their programs’ effectiveness in helping high school aged-smokers successfully quit. Read more.

Smokeless Tobacco Safer?

In an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, Carl Bialik comments on what has become the grand debate to the tobacco control community in recent years. Should smokeless tobacco products be recommended for use as “safer” than smoked tobacco? Do they have a public health benefit? Can they be useful in helping smokers quit or are those smokers likely to become dual users? If this myriad of new products is mainstreamed how will it impact initiation of use by children and youth? Read more.

Genes Affect Smoking Behavior

According to a trio of studies published in Nature Genetics, genes may be partly to blame for smokers’ inability to quit. Read more.

CDC’s Tobacco Control Report to Help States Develop and Implement Plans to Reduce Tobacco Use

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released the report Tobacco Control State Highlights 2010, which provides tobacco control programs and decision-makers with state-specific data regarding proven, high-impact tobacco strategies. The report aims to address the public health impact of smoking and call attention to the urgent need to end the tobacco use epidemic. Read more.

Will quitting smoking help promote health…after a lung cancer diagnosis?

A new study published in the British Medical Journal states that smoking cessation offers a significant benefit to early-stage lung cancer patients by reducing the progression of the disease. Read more.

Consumer-Oriented Smoking Cessation Tools Podcast

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a podcast with Dr. Tracy Orleans, the Foundation’s senior scientist, that explores how a consumer approach could vastly increase interest in tobacco cessation products and services. Read more.

Results from the Adult Tobacco Survey

The April 16, 2010 issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report includes data collected by the Adult Tobacco Survey (ATS) during February 2003 – November 2007. Among 33 ATSs conducted in 19 states, current cigarette use by adults ranged from 13.3% (Hawaii in 2006) to 25.4% (West Virginia in 2005), with a median of: 19.2%. Among young adults aged 18-29, current cigarette use ranged from 15.8% (Hawaii in 2006) to 40.4% (West Virginia in 2005), with a median of: 26.7%. Read more.

Recent Smoking Cessation Trends

The April 8, 2010 release of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health Report examined smoking cessation among individuals who smoked on a daily basis at some time in their lives and who smoked any cigarettes during the period 13 to 24 months prior to the interview. Among people who smoked cigarettes 13 to 24 months prior to the survey interview, 4.1 percent (2.2 million persons) had successfully stopped smoking by the next year. The past year smoking cessation rate was higher among females than males, higher among adults aged 26 to 34 than among persons in other age groups, and increased with increasing levels of education and income. Furthermore, past year smoking cessation rates varied by State, ranging from a high of 6.8 percent in Vermont to a low of 1.8 percent in South Carolina. Read more.

New Study on Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Cessation

A new study published in the April issue of Tobacco Control gives evidence that that electronic cigarettes may be effective in suppressing the desire to smoke. It found that they worked in a way similar to nicotine inhalers, but were more pleasant to use because of decreased side effects. Read more.

Pharmacists in Australia will soon be able to help more smokers quit

A new program developed by the National Prescribing Service is designed to support patients currently considering quitting smoking and assist pharmacists in developing tailored smoking cessation programs for them. Read more.

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