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Toolkit for Delivering 5As and 5Rs Brief Tobacco Interventions in Primary Care

By: World Health Organization This toolkit was developed based on WHO Capacity Building Training Package 4 entitled “Strengthening health systems for treating tobacco dependence in primary care.” Its target audience are primary care providers. It aims to serve as a quick reference guide to help primary care providers deliver brief tobacco interventions as part of […]

5A and 2A Tobacco Intervention Pocket Card

From Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Cancer Institute, and American Medical Association

Tobacco-Free Toolkit for Community Health Facilities

About this Toolkit Why is a tobacco-free policy toolkit needed? The majority of Americans are not dying from infectious disease or genetics, but from chronic and modifiable behaviors (McGinnis et al., 2002; Mokdad et al., 2004). Tobacco use remains the most preventable cause of illness in the United States (US DHHS, 2004). To assist people […]

Smoke Free Toolkit for Businesses

Smoke-Free Toolkit for Businesses From Greater Flint Health Coalition and Commit to Fit! This smoke-free toolkit is designed as a resource for businesses and organizations to implement campus-wide smoke-free policies which have been proven to improve health, lower business costs, and increase employee productivity. This was developed by the Greater Flint Health Coalition’s Health Improvement […]

Motivational Interviewing Techniques

From FOCUS Psychological Strategies By: Katie Hall, Tania Gibbie, and Dan I Lubman Background One of the biggest challenges that primary care practitioners face is helping people change longstanding behaviours that pose significant health risks. Objective To explore current understanding regarding how and why people change, and the potential role of motivational interviewing in facilitating […]

Respiratory Health Association | Smoke-Free Is Legal Profitable Easy Toolkit

FDA Announces Plans to Advance Two Tobacco Product Standards

View Full Press Release Earlier today FDA announced it intends to advance two tobacco product standards — one to ban menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and another to ban all characterizing flavors (including menthol) in cigars. FDA intends to issue proposed product standards within the next year. With the announcement, the FDA granted […]

ITCMI AICTP Success Story 2020

Download Success Story (PDF) In 2019, the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan’s Three Fires Comprehensive Cancer Consortium Program increased its use of media to run culturally tailored tobacco digital ads which focused on cancer prevention through smoking cessation. The ads resulted in a significant response to the call to action to dial the American Indian Commercial […]

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Marijuana Use in e-Cigarettes Among U.S. Youth in 2017, 2018, and 2020

This study reports the prevalence of ever use of marijuana in e-cigarette among U.S. youth in 2020, and changes in prevalence from 2017 to 2020*, by racial and ethnic groups based on National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) data. In 2020, 5.1 million U.S. middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12) students (1 in […]

State-Specific Prevalence of Tobacco Product Use Among U.S. Women: Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, 2018-2019

CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administration, is releasing the following tobacco-related research brief in the journal, Preventing Chronic Disease State-Specific Prevalence of Tobacco Product Use Among U.S. Women: Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, 2018-2019 During 2018-2019, at least 1 […]

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