Smoking Cessation Leadership Center Celebrates Milestones

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To celebrate our 10^th anniversary, the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will review ten milestones from our work over the last decade and ten emerging directions. 

Click here to see the first of ten write-ups from our director, Dr. Steve Schroeder.

 #1 Milestone:  Helping to incorporate smoking cessation into mainstream treatment of mental health disorders and addictions.

#1 Emerging Direction:  Continued work with behavioral health professional groups, including the military and Department of Defense (DoD). 

 

#3 Milestone: Ask, Advise, and Refer as an acceptable cessation strategy, including promoting the national quitline (1-800-QUIT-NOW).

#3 Emerging Direction: Extend the reach of quitlines.

 #3 Emerging Direction: Ban cigarette sales from chain pharmacies nationwide.

 #4 Milestone:  Marketing Rx for Change: Clinician-assisted tobacco cessation.

Posted by the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Medicine.
Box 1211
3333 California Street, Suite 430
San Francisco, CA  94118
Direct: (415) 476-0216
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SCLC 10 Years of Milestones Series

Published by SCLC, reposted by http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com

To celebrate our 10^th anniversary, the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will review ten milestones from our work over the last decade and ten emerging directions. 

 Click here to see the first of ten write-ups from our director, Dr. Steve Schroeder.

 
#1 Milestone:  Helping to incorporate smoking cessation into mainstream treatment of mental health disorders and addictions.

#1 Emerging Direction:  Continued work with behavioral health professional groups, including the military and Department of Defense (DoD). 

States Spend Less Than 2 cents of Tobacco $ on Reduction

States will collect a record $25.7 billion in revenue from the 1998 state tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes this year, but will spend just 1.8 percent of it—less than two cents of every dollar—on programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a new report released by a coalition of public health organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Total state funding for tobacco prevention amounts to just 12.4 percent of the $3.7 billion that the CDC recommends for all the states combined. Only two states, Alaska and North Dakota, currently fund tobacco prevention programs at the CDC-recommended level. 

 As the nation implements health care reform, the report titled “Broken Promises to Our Children,” warns that states are missing the opportunity to reduce tobacco-related health care costs which total $96 billion every year in the United States.

 Written by Gustavo Torrez, Program Manager, The Network for LGBT Health Equity. EMPOWERED: Taking on CDC . Reposted at http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com