DIMENSIONS: Tobacco Free and Well Body Toolkits for Healthcare Providers

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The Behavioral Health and Wellness Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine is proud to announce the completion of the DIMENSIONS: Tobacco Free and Well Body Toolkits for Healthcare Providers. Through partnership with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the toolkits are designed for direct healthcare providers as well as administrators and healthcare organizations. The toolkits can be accessed at the links below:

The DIMENSIONS: Tobacco Free Toolkit for Healthcare Providers is designed for a broad range of healthcare providers, including direct providers, administrators, and healthcare organizations. The toolkit provides a variety of information on education about tobacco use, skills for engaging in tobacco cessation discussions, efficient methods for assessing an individual’s readiness to quit, and information and research on treatments.

• The DIMENSIONS: Tobacco Free Toolkit for Health Care Providers Supplement for Priority Populations – Behavioral Health provides education on why this population has significantly higher rates of tobacco use as well as addresses the challenges associated with tobacco cessation treatment for persons with behavioral health conditions.
• The Tobacco Free Toolkit for Community Health Facilities is a resource for healthcare organizations to assist them in creating tobacco free policies on their grounds. The toolkit provides strategies and instructions on assessing organizational readiness to go tobacco-free, implementing tobacco-free policies, and providing tobacco cessation services and referrals as policies take effect.
• The DIMENSIONS: Well Body Toolkit for Healthcare Providers is designed for a broad range of healthcare providers including direct providers, administrators, and healthcare organizations. The toolkit contains a variety of information on education about the importance of maintaining a healthy weight, developing skills for engaging individuals in weight management conversations, low burden means of assessing change related to increasing healthy behaviors, and evidence-based treatment options.
• The DIMENSIONS: Well Body Toolkit for Healthcare Providers Supplement for Priority Populations – Behavioral Health provides education on the contributing factors to increased rates of obesity in this population as well as strategies for interventions and targeted programming to address the unique needs of persons with behavioral health conditions.

Quittin Time: Tobacco News Round Up

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Curbing Childhood Tobacco Use

NEWS

FDA Discusses Banning Online Sales of E-Cigarettes
August 30, 2013   The Food and Drug Administration has been in discussions with the e-cigarette industry about a possible online-sales ban of the product,  as it prepares a package of proposed regulations for the increasingly popular devices, people familiar with the matter said. Read more.

 

How Hospitals Can Help Patients Quit Smoking Before Surgery
August 30, 2013   As GW rolls out its smoke-free campus policy this fall, it follows suit of colleges nationwide that are mostly ignoring the question of how to enforce their smoking bans. Read more.

E-Cigarettes Contain Chemicals That Make Some ‘As Harmful As Normal Tobacco’
August 29, 2013   Electronic cigarettes contain carcinogenic chemicals that make some as harmful as normal tobacco, a new French study has claimed. Read more.

Nicotine Exposure Gives Baby Rats Addictive Personalities
August 29, 2013   Exposure to nicotine in the womb increases the production of brain cells that stimulate appetite, leading to overconsumption of nicotine,  alcohol and fatty foods in later life, according to a new study in rats. Read more.
 
Female Smokers at Higher Risk for Hemorrhagic Stroke
August 28, 2013   The advice that “smoking is bad for you” may be old news, but the American Heart Association has released a new study in their journal Stroke, which reveals women are more susceptible to certain stroke-related risks that result from smoking. Read more.

Doctors Support Raising the Smoking Age
August 28, 2013   Teenagers looking to buy cigarettes in New York may have to look elsewhere if a city council proposal is approved and signed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Read more.
 
Why Is Obama Caving on Tobacco?
August 27, 2013   Last year I endorsed President Obama for re-election largely because of his commitment to putting science and public health before politics. Read more.
 
Study Cites Progress in Curbing Tobacco Sales to Minors
August 27, 2013   Federal and state efforts to snuff out tobacco sales to minors are working despite a slight rise in those sales between 2011 and 2012, a new report says. Read more.
 
Doctors Asked to Counsel Teens About the Dangers of Smoking
August 26, 2013   Doctors already have a hefty checklist of topics to go over with their patients. Read more.

Smoking Rates Are on the Decline, but Not So Big Tobacco
August 26, 2013   For years now, the tobacco industry has battled a declining U.S. smoker base and a barrage of anti-smoking campaigns. Read more.
 

ActionToQuit Update

Demystifying Lung Cancer Screening - The Path from U.S. Preventive Service Task Force Recommendation to Implementation is a Warner Series Lecture sponsored by Legacy and the Lung Cancer Alliance. The event will take place Tuesday September 10, 2013 from noon to 2:00 PM Eastern time. For those viewing by webcast, the program begins at 12:30pm. Click HERE to register.

The University of California at San Francisco will go completely tobacco free as of September 3, 2013. HERE is an insightful video commentary. As Stan Glantz says, “UCSF is a 21st century institution and tobacco use is a 20th century artifact that we’re leaving behind”.

The FDA Center for Tobacco Products has developed new guidance for the tobacco industry:  Compliance with Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco To Protect Children and Adolescents. This guidance is intended to assist manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and others who sell cigarettes and/or smokeless tobacco in understanding the final regulations and explain what they should do in order to comply. Click HERE.   

From the Journal of Smoking Cessation, Cambridge Journals -Smokers Who Seek Help in Specialized Cessation Clinics: How Special are they Compared to Smokers in General Population? Click HERE.

The marketing department says, “If you love cigars or are a former cigarette smoker, this might be an ok alternative to puffing on cancer sticks”. Tobacco-Flavored Vodka. Coming to a Happy Hour near you.

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Tobacco Free Press Update

The Tobacco Control Network (TCN) is pleased to present the August 2013 edition of the Tobacco Free Press. Here, we bring to you summaries of trending stories from the past month. We hope this monthly e-news digest helps you access and use valuable tobacco-related news, research, training opportunities, and tools efficiently. The TCN’s mission is to improve the public’s health by providing education and state-based expertise to tobacco prevention and control at the state and national levels. Click here to learn more about the TCN and the resources available to CDC-funded state/territory tobacco control programs and their partners via the network.   Tobacco Free Press e-newsletter - August 2013 Follow the links below to access the full articles. Secondhand Smoke The economic impact of smoke-free laws on restaurants and bars in nine states Environmental tobacco smoke exposure in children aged 3-19 years with and without asthma in the United States, 1999-2010 Thirdhand smoke: A select bibliography of recent studies Thirdhand tobacco smoke: A tobacco-specific lung carcinogen on surfaces in smokers' homes No-smoking law in Colorado casinos led to fewer ambulance calls (CO) Policies to Restrict Secondhand Smoke Exposure: American College of Preventive Medicine position statement Anti-smoking battle moves outdoors; bans increase New smoke-free housing resources for California communities with rent control laws (CA) Michigan businesses forced to go smoke-free seeing positive results (MI) Tobacco Pricing Cigarette taxes linked to binge drinking Mass. tax increasing for gas, cigarettes; national average of state tobacco taxes increases to $1.53 per pack (MA) N.H. cigarette tax going up dime (NH) Poll: Strong support for early childhood education funded by cigarette tax Australian smoking rate to beat U.S.'s on tax (Australia) Other Policy Learn how to keep pharmacies tobacco free and model ordinance: Tobacco retailer licensing Interactive tobacco map provides latest data on state smoking laws Massachusetts bill would ban e-cigarette sales to minors (MA) NC law takes effect banning e-cigarettes to minors (NC) Mayor Emanuel asks Board of Health to take action aimed at curtailing menthol cigarette use among Chicago youth Report shows majority of states falling short on policies to fight and prevent cancer Panel backs lung cancer screening for smokers Introduction effects of the Australian plain packaging policy on adult smokers: a cross-sectional study (Australia) USTR abandons plan to protect tobacco control measures under Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement Youth Prevention New U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation: Interventions can prevent smoking by children and teens Use of conventional and novel smokeless tobacco products among U.S. adolescents Kids more likely to smoke if older sibling smokes, or if parent smoked as a teen In all flavors, cigars draw in young smokers Tobacco-Related Disparities in Specific Populations New study details pervasiveness of little cigars and cigarillos in African American neighborhoods Childhood economic strains in predicting substance use in emerging adulthood: Mediation effects of youth self-control and parenting practices SOPHE journal supplement highlights tobacco disparities among Asian American and related communities Celebrating smokefree casinos video: Jay's Story Mid-state jail turns to electronic cigarettes to raise money (AL, KY, TN) Cessation Do people serve as cues to smoke? Quality improvement initiative issue paper: Quitline referral systems Most U.S. smokers want to quit, have tried multiple times Dimensions: Tobacco free toolkit for healthcare providers Legal Analysis of legal and scientific issues in court challenges to graphic tobacco warnings Coral Springs family awarded $37.5 million in suit against tobacco company (FL) FDA Announcements FDA issues new warning letters FDA releases report from independent evaluation of menthol as a cigarette flavor, invites public comments Scientific workshop and request for comments: Tobacco product analysis FDA discusses banning online sales of e-cigarettes Data/Reports Tobacco cessation and control a decade later: American Society of Clinical Oncology policy statement update Effects of the economic crisis on smoking prevalence and number of smokers in the USA Save the Date Webinar: Demystifying Lung Cancer Screening International Conference on Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: The Endgame for Tobacco Tackling Tobacco in Behavioral Health Settings Training Webinar: New Developments in the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS) Webinar: E-cigarettes: The vapor this time? Point of Sale Training Institute 2013 AAP National Conference and Exhibition American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition Beyond the 5 A's: Improving Cessation Interventions Through Strengthened Training Reduce Tobacco Use Conference 2014 Promising Practices to Promote Tobacco-Free Active Living and Healthy Eating in Low Socioeconomic Status Communities Job Announcements Tobacco Epidemiologist Associate Vice President, Research and Evaluation Youth Action Assistant Public Health Policy Campaign Manager Youth Activism Coordinator Staff Services Manager I / Public Relations Strategist Tobacco Office Chief Director of the National Coordinating Center Brand Manager (Teen Hip Hop Campaign) Health Program Manager I Director/Senior Research Specialist, Economic and Health Policy Research Regional Campaign Manager - Southern US - Tobacco Focus Senior Adolescent Health Scientist Research Group Manager Associate Director, Federal Government Relations Country Director — Indonesia Policy Director Country Director Jobs at the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Various Requests for Proposals Food and Drug Administration Request for Proposals: Tobacco retail inspections National Institutes of Health Funding Opportunity Announcements: Behavioral and social science research on understanding and reducing health disparities Awards Nominate a deserving colleague for Community Leadership Award 2013 nominations open - Unsung heroes of public health awards Other Announcements Deadline extended: Looking for real people to appear in ad campaign about the health effects of smoking cigarettes

Need more news? Check the Tobacco Control Network website regularly, as we make continuous additions to the materials and resources available. Click here to learn more about the Tobacco Control Network (TCN). Visit the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC) website to see What's New in tobacco-related news and research, and to learn about useful tools and resources. Follow @DTTAC_TTAC on Twitter to get timely updates on tobacco and diabetes prevention and control from TTAC and our sister organization, the Diabetes Training and Technical Assistance Center (DTTAC), and network with other leaders in chronic disease prevention and control. About This Newsletter The Tobacco Free Press is funded by the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health and managed by the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC). TTAC is dedicated to assisting organizations in building and growing highly effective tobacco control programs and partners with national, state or local community based organizations to provide technical assistance, products and tools, and tobacco capacity development programs. While TTAC makes every effort to present accurate and reliable information in this newsletter, it does not endorse, approve, or certify such information, nor does it guarantee its accuracy, completeness, or timeliness. Reference herein to any product, process, or service does not constitute or imply endorsement or recommendation by TTAC unless expressly stated. We invite you to pass on this newsletter to any of your colleagues who may be interested. Please encourage them to sign up to receive the newsletter directly. As always, please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions on how to make the Tobacco Free Press a useful source of information. Copyright © 2013 Emory Centers for Training and Technical Assistance, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you expressed interest in receiving occasional email updates from DTTAC, TTAC, or the Emory Centers for Training and Technical Assistance. Our mailing address is: Emory Centers for Training and Technical Assistance Rollins School of Public Health | Emory University 1518 Clifton Road NE, MS: 1518-002-5AA Atlanta, GA 30322 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

Psychiatric Patients Given Smoking-Cessation Treatment Less Likely to Be Rehospitalized

Psychiatric Patients Given Smoking-Cessation Treatment Less Likely to Be Rehospitalized
ScienceDaily August 15, 2013

Patients who participated in a smoking-cessation program during hospitalization for mental illness were able to quit smoking and were less likely to be hospitalized again for their psychiatric conditions, according to a new study led by a Stanford University School of Medicine scientist. The findings counter a longstanding assumption, held by many mental-health experts, that smoking serves as a useful tool in treating some psychiatric patients.

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E-cigarette sales in jails

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In Tennessee, an e-cigarette brand called CROSS BAR is being sold in at least one county jail to raise funds for local jails (read more, and watch a video clip here: Mid-state jail turns to electronic cigarettes to raise money), with another county sheriff proposing the idea to policymakers this week as a way to raise revenues to increase jail officers’ pay (read more here). This brand is made for inmates-no metal all plastic, and the vendor is marketing to jailers.

Given the potential financial gain to the county from the e-cigarette sales, we anticipate that raising concerns about potential legal liabilities to the county may be a strong argument, in addition to educating policymakers regarding the individual and population health risks of e-cigarettes.

Tennessee would like to know: Have any other states heard of state or county jailers selling e-cigarettes?

• Have counties that are selling e-cigarettes in jails seen any legal exposure or liability (e.g. from selling an unregulated device)? Similarly, are there any pending lawsuits by prisoners against counties that have sold e-cigarettes to prisoners?
• Please tell us about your experiences, if you’re aware of a state or county that has encountered a similar situation, or share any other resources or suggestions about how to respond.

This request is part of the Tobacco Control Network's (TCN) Help Your Peers service. If you have any information to share, or have a contact who would be able to respond, please reply to the TCN staff at tcn@sph.emory.edu by August 23, 2013. 

Webinar - Needs Assessment: Tobacco Dependence Education in Graduate Psychiatric Nursing and Pharmacy Schools

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This webinar by the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center is specifically intended to engage psychiatric nursing and pharmacy faculty in a discussion about tobacco dependence treatment and assess the value of the Psychiatry Rx for Change curriculum within academic settings. Participants will engage in an interactive polling session to generate audience feedback. This feedback will be used to inform future strategies to ensure that graduates from health professional degree programs are equipped with the knowledge and skills to facilitate quitting among smokers with co-occurring disorders.

Webinar objectives: Provide an overview of tobacco use among persons experiencing psychiatric and substance use disorders

• Assess the state of tobacco dependence education for training psychiatric nurses and psychiatric pharmacists in the United States
• Identify at least three available resources to help psychiatric nurses, psychiatric pharmacists, and other providers help patients quit smoking

Presenters:
Judith J. Prochaska, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University

• Karen S. Hudmon, DrPH, MS, RPh, Professor and Associate Head for Operations, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Purdue University College of Pharmacy
• Daryl Sharp, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, NPP, Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Diversity in the School of Nursing, Professor of Clinical Nursing & in the Center for Community Health, University of Rochester
• Susan W. Blaakman, PhD RN NPP-BC, Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing, Specialty Director, Family PMHNP Program, University of Rochester
• Rhonda Schwindt, DNP, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Community & Health School of Nursing, Indiana University

August 28, 2013 from 1:00-2:15 pm Eastern Time. REGISTER HERE

Early Bird Discount: Point of Sale Training Institute

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The two-day, interactive training is designed for tobacco control and public health workers from state and local health departments and voluntary organizations who want to learn more, get started, or ramp up their point of sale efforts. It will be particularly helpful for those who want to start doing store assessments (surveys) and would like to trial the Store Audit Center software, our web-based mobile data collection system.

October 24-25, 2013, Chapel Hill, NC. REGISTERHERE

 

Counter Tools is offering a 10% discount off of program tuition for participants who have paid their registration on or before August 20, 2013. 

 

 

Training - Beyond the 5 A's: Improving Cessation Interventions Through Strengthened Training

This one-and-a-half day interactive conference by National Jewish Health and the North American Quitline Consortium in collaboration with the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center will bring together professionals who currently design and deliver smoking cessation education programs with public health tobacco cessation experts, systems decision-makers, health care providers and researchers, to translate recent advances in both evidence and practice into action that will improve the frequency and effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions. Through its unifying theme of improving training to providers on addressing tobacco use with their patients, the conference will engage participants in new knowledge and discovery related to cessation interventions with specific populations, interventions within specific health care settings and cessation delivery by specific types of providers. Attendees will examine recent advances and discuss their own successful approaches, strategies, techniques and challenges to improve the effectiveness and quality of smoking cessation interventions.

November 14–15, 2013. DoubleTree Paradise Valley Scottsdale, Arizona.  For the save the date flyer, click here.  Email questions you may have to ProEd@njhealth.org.

National Smokeless and Spit Tobacco Summit Advocacy Awards

The Smokeless Summit Advisory Board is proud to announce the Award Winners from the 7th National Smokeless and Spit Tobacco Summit. The awards were presented last week at the Summit held in Missoula, Montana. Reposted at http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com,

 Congratulations!

Amy Hertz Award for Outstanding Advocacy, Education: Katherine Bailey,  Southern Coalfields Tobacco Prevention, McDowell County, W.V. Katherine Bailey is a dedicated health educator from the Southern Coalfields area in WV. The challenges are many: 25% of the residents have no health insurance, 40% are in fair or poor health; 42% of the residents have hypertension; 32% use cigarettes, 12% use smokeless tobacco; median household income is $21,903 compared to the state at $37,057; more than 83% of the children qualify for free and reduced meals; and over 46% of youth do not live with either biological parent.

 

Her accomplishments include motivating her coalition to achieve tobacco free zone policy at the local minor league park, tobacco prevention education night with local minor league teams, countless cessation workshops at all hours of the day for local coal mines, education presentation to both adults and youth about smokeless tobacco, and champion for the Spit It Out W.V. campaign. At one point in the campaign her efforts led to an 800% increase in use of the State Quit Line in her area.

We celebrate her dedication to smokeless tobacco prevention and cessation activism!

Cliff Niles Creative Media Award: James Capp,"Tobacco Stops With Me" Campaign, Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust

James is a schoolteacher, who has recently had to retire due to problems with his health (difficulty eating and speaking, following treatment for oral cancer), but he's been a strong advocate for tobacco control at the community level and at the state level. He spoke out against the "harm reduction" message that was introduced at the start of the Oklahoma state legislature. He has also allowed TSET to produce an entire campaign around his story so that others can learn from his experience to never use tobacco or stop using tobacco. How successful is this campaign? Within the first two weeks of the campaign, use of the state Quit Line increased by 300%. Putting a face on tobacco disease helps.

Click here to view the James Capps Story.  

Through With Chew Policy Award: The BACCHUS Network, Montana Collegiate Tobacco Prevention Initiative, Ann Quinn-Zobeck receiving the Award
The Montana Collegiate Tobacco Prevention Initiative (MCTPI) is a movement to create healthier college campuses in Montana by reducing tobacco use and creating a safe environment through year-round comprehensive education and prevention activities, cessation services, and policy change. The BACCHUS Network supported Montana Tech to become the first tobacco-free campus in Montana (July 2010) and assisted six other higher education institutions to successfully implement tobacco-free policies; thus impacting tobacco use among 18-to-24-year-olds by reducing access to tobacco products, increasing access to cessation services, and increasing tobacco-free environments to reduce exposure to harmful carcinogens. Campus tobacco-free policies prohibit the use, sale, or distribution of tobacco products (including spit, smokeless, chew, snuff) on all properties owned, operated, or leased by the institution implementing it. Tobacco-free campuses eliminate litter associated with tobacco use and create an environment more conducive to quitting for users. For example, the tobacco-free policy at MSU-Billings has been associated with a 6% decrease in everyday smokeless use by college students; 22% of students reported that the policy influenced them to quit or reduce tobacco use. 

Buck Tobacco Sponsorship Award: "The Tobacco Tour," Greg Bilby and Ronnie Trentham,  Cherokee Nation Comprehensive Cancer Control, Tahlequah & Stilwell, OK

Cherokee Nation Comprehensive Cancer Control Program Tobacco Tour has reached 10,000 young people since its inception in November of 2008. Organized by Greg Bilby, CN Public Health Educator, the Tobacco Tour works to eliminate or restrict tobacco promotion in the tribal communities by utilizing the talents of Guinness World Record holder, Brian Jackson, recognized as the "I Believe Guy," Cherokee Story Teller Robert Lewis, and six-time cancer survivor and former smokeless tobacco user, Ronnie Trentham. Trentham is the honorable mayor of Stilwell, Oklahoma, and a dedicated volunteer Hero of Hope for the Cancer Society.

The presentation does not condemn the traditional use of tobacco for sacred American Indian ceremonies; the program educates tribal youth about the danger of commercial tobacco use and how it can lead to cancer and other health related issues. The group is willing to travel to make presentations in other areas. For more information please contact Ronnie Trentham.