October 4, 2005
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Program Result
From mid-2001 to mid-2004, the Smoke-Free New Hampshire Alliance, with the American Lung Association as the lead organization, conducted statewide activities to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth.
November 28, 2005
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Program Result
The University of Michigan School of Public Health analyzed the knowledge and opinions of grassroots tobacco control activists and tobacco researchers and scientists regarding tobacco harm reduction.
December 1, 2005
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Program Result
Researchers at the University of Arizona evaluated the safety and efficacy of two doses of bupropion (a medication-based smoking cessation treatment, also called Zyban) for use by adolescents.
July 1, 2004
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Program Result
In 2001, the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Middleton, Wis., working in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), unveiled a Web-based database on tobacco dependence treatment.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result
The National Medical Association engaged African-American clinicians in training others to follow a clinical practice guideline on smoking cessation and in disseminating and implementing the guideline, Smoking Cessation, Clinical Practice Guideline, No. 18.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result
The National Jewish Outreach Program, a New York City organization that supports North American Jews in their faith, conducted an antismoking campaign called the Shabbat Smokeout.
September 1, 2003
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Program Result
The National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md., and other funders convened the North American Conference of Smoking Cessation Quitlines in Phoenix, Ariz., on May 8-10, 2002.
October 1, 2003
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Program Result
In 2000, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released revised guidelines for clinical and community tobacco cessation interventions that have the potential to reduce smoking rates nationally.
February 1, 2002
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Program Result
The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Middleton, Wis., integrated research issues on tobacco treatment for adolescents into a conference addressing methodological issues in tobacco treatment outcomes research.
July 1, 2002
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Program Result
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School updated Clinical Practice Guideline on Smoking Cessation (#18), a publication of the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
