News | ActionToQuit – Advancing Tobacco Cessation Policy

Home
News

Tell a Friend

Tobacco Cessation in the News

Delayed Quitters

September 2, 2010 - Researchers from the Oregon Health & Science University Smoking Cessation Center have concluded that tobacco quit rates may be significantly increased by just continuing cessation treatments without interruption. Read more.

Expanding Coverage: Medicare Offers New Tobacco Cessation Counseling Benefit

August 30 2010 - On August 25th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced an expansion of Medicare coverage that is supported by many tobacco control advocates around the nation. This new expansion offers coverage of evidence-based tobacco cessation counseling, allowing many more smokers to get the treatment that they need. Read more.

The E-Cigarette Debate Continues – Drug Delivery Device or Alternative to Cigarettes?

August 27, 2010 - The e-cigarettes industry is estimated at $100 million in annual sales. Sellers say they are potentially less harmful than cigarettes because they do not involve the burning of tobacco and e-cigarette users say they are an effective way to quit smoking. However, the future of e-cigarettes is in question as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is fighting to regulate the products as drug-delivery devices, similar to nicotine gums and patches. If the FDA gets its wish in a case scheduled for oral arguments before a federal appellate court next month in Washington, D.C., this would subject e-cigarettes to lengthy and expensive trails to prove they are safe and effective. Read more.

New Cigarette Tests May Customize Quitting

August 26, 2010 - Testing the chemicals in cigarette smoke has the potential for more accurately estimating smokers’ mouth level exposure and may have applications for developing custom-tailored quitting approaches for the more than 43 million people in the United States who still smoke, and hundreds of millions elsewhere, scientists announced yesterday. Read more.

Medicaid and Quitlines: A Toolbox for Expanding Medicaid Benefits and Gaining Reimbursement for Quit

August 24, 2010 - The North American Quitline Association announced the release of a Medicaid Toolbox, a resource for quitline, cessation, health care and Medicaid professionals. It provides up-to-date information and innovative examples for understanding the current environment, expanding cessation benefits in the Medicaid program, and gaining reimbursement for quitline services to Medicaid members.
It is available at: http://www.naquitline.org/?page=medicaid

Suppressing Your Thoughts of Cigarettes: An Ineffective Smoking Cessation Technique

August 19, 2010 - A study conducted by researchers at St. George’s University of London and the University of Hertfordshire found that suppressing thoughts of cigarettes while trying to quit may be creating greater obstacles in terms of quitting. By using this cessation technique, smokers may be hurting their chances of succeeding in their quit attempt. As Dr. Erskine, co-author of the report, explains “If trying to avoid thoughts of something in an attempt to give it up actually unwittingly triggers a subsequent increase, it’s a poor method of self control.” Such a phenomenon is known as “behavioral rebound,” where avoiding thinking about a behavior simply triggers that behavior to occur even more. Read more.

North Carolina is Leading the Way for Hospital Smoking Cessation Efforts

August 16, 2010 - North Carolina may be leading the way in terms of offering tobacco cessation in hospitals. A two-year, $500,000 grant from The Duke Endowment has allowed the North Carolina Hospital Association and the North Carolina Prevention Partners to develop a program that gives smoking cessation advice to patients at all North Carolina private hospitals and also a follow-up inquiry a month after discharge if the patient so chooses. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, who became the first hospital in North Carolina to achieve “gold star” status for its work in tobacco control, is headlining this effort and leading the way for other hospitals in North Carolina. Read more.

NSTEP®: Helping to Make Smokeless Tobacco a Thing of the Past in American Baseball

August 11, 2010 - The National Spit Tobacco Education Program, NSTEP®, was developed by Oral Health America to prevent people, primarily youth, from initiating the use of smokeless tobacco products and to also help all smokeless tobacco users quit. Since its founding in 1994, NSTEP has worked to educate the 10 to 16 million Americans who use smokeless tobacco products each year by teaming up with America’s favorite pastime, baseball. In doing so, NSTEP has worked to break the association between baseball and spit tobacco by using professional baseball players to help teach the American public about the harms of using smokeless tobacco. Read more.

Using Snus for Smoking Cessation: More Likely to Quit But More Likely to Stay Addicted

August 10, 2010 - Much of what we know in terms of using snus, a form of smokeless tobacco, to quit smoking comes from self-reported studies which do not offer much evidence. However, a study published in Oxford University’s Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal, “The Use of Snus for Quitting Smoking Compared with Medicinal Products,” attempted to gain more knowledge on this subject by analyzing data from self-reports of smokers who attempted to quit using snus, nicotine patches, nicotine chewing gum, bupropion (Zyban), and varenicline (Champix). Read more.

Smoking Cessation after Diagnosis with Lung Cancer: Improved Prognosis and Reductions in Death

August 9, 2010 - While it is known that smoking cessation reduces the risk of developing lung cancer, it is unclear whether or not smoking cessation after having been diagnosed with a lung tumor helps to improve survival rates. Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK used a systematic review to study this topic and have published their findings in the British Medical Journal article, “Influence of Smoking Cessation after Diagnosis of Early Stage Lung Cancer on Prognosis: Systematic Review of Observational Studies with Meta-Analysis.” Read more.

Page 1 of 8 pages 1 2 3 > Last »

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

National Working Group for ACTTION

Partnership for Prevention

Tobacco Cessation in the News

Delayed Quitters

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

Coverage of Call for ACTTION/Working Group

Letter to Senator Tom Harkin

Report Calls for Greater Access to Smoking-Cessation Programs

Mr. Obama's Struggle With Smoking

Smokers Could Be Quitters by 2020

Other Relevant News

Congress Plans Incentives for Healthy Habits

Experts in Government, Public Health, Public Policy and Science Outline Blueprint for Reducing Death and Disease From Tobacco in the United States

The Tobacco Paradox

Walmart Offers $9 Smoking Cessation Starter Pack

Remove the Barriers from Tobacco Cessation

In The News RSS

Stay Informed RSS

Key Dates RSS