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ActionToQuit educates thought leaders and policymakers about tobacco control. It urges all sectors – employers, insurers, health care systems, quitlines, and policymakers – to work together to ensure that all tobacco users have access to comprehensive cessation treatments.
In 2010, ActionToQuit funded the Joint Commission to develop a pilot tobacco cessation performance measure for hospitals. The measure included screening all hospitalized patients for tobacco use and providing cessation treatments as a routine procedure. Recently ActionToQuit commissioned The George Washington University to develop a return on investment study for the Massachusetts smoking cessation Medicaid benefit, which decreased smoking by 26% percent in this population. Partnership for Prevention played a leadership role in the implementation of Health Reform, advocating for full coverage of Preventive Service Task Force recommendations, which included coverage for tobacco cessation treatment in private health plans. ActionToQuit offers publications at no charge to leaders and advocates. The most recent is “Increasing Access to Tobacco Cessation in States: ActionToQuit Case Studies, June 2011”.
ActionToQuit continues to keep leaders in tobacco control informed and help advance policies that ensure all Americans have access to comprehensive tobacco cessation treatments through:
Hospital Tobacco Control
Engaging Employers in Tobacco Control
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- Feb 22, 2012
UK Quit Smoking Campaigns Come Under Fire
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Many Americans Support Lower Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes
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To Keep Research Funding, Texas Universities Consider Tobacco Ban
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Smoke Free Areas Outside Bars Could Stamp Out “Social Smoking”
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