Learning Objectives: Apply examples of cessation strategies reaching targeted communities, as recommended in the guide to community preventive services for tobacco use prevention and control. Explore training methods for local coalitions to adopt such community-based cessation strategies.
Abstract: Audience: State and local tobacco control program individuals will gain insight on how to move local tobacco control programs from individual-patient level cessation delivery to developing strategies to provide cessation through policy and systems changes with a broader community-based approach.
Key Points: The Guide to Community Preventive Services for Tobacco Use Prevention and Control recommends several interventions to increase tobacco cessation. Three projects demonstrate how these strategies are being implemented in Indiana. A community coalition in northeast Indiana is implementing a community-wide system approach through multiple hospitals, community organizations, and providers. A provider education and reminder system is working through the Indiana State Medical Association. Finally, a research project is piloting a quit line and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for students, faculty and staff at Purdue University. These tobacco control partners are working through various audiences in their respective organizations to approach cessation at a community level by applying the recommendations and implementing components of a comprehensive cessation strategy.
Educational Experience: Participants can engage the presenters in exploring ways such strategies could be developed in their communities. Representatives from each of the projects will discuss their programs and the response of their respective communities. State tobacco control program staff can discuss ways to train local coalitions in these strategies.
Benefits: State and local tobacco control program individuals can implement similar approaches for cessation through stronger, more sustaining networks.
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