March 1, 1998
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Program Result
The National Committee for Quality Assurance, an accrediting organization for managed care plans, issued a "Call for Measures" inviting public participation in revising its Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set.
May 1, 1998
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Program Result
Although 20 percent to 40 percent of pregnant smokers stop smoking sometime during pregnancy, a significant number continue smoking, and most return to smoking in the first six months after the birth of the baby.
August 31, 1998
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Program Result
SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc., New York, carried out a project to purchase a smokefree advertising campaign on the roofs of New York City taxi cabs.
June 1, 1998
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Program Result
Pinney Associates, Inc., a Bethesda, Md. health consulting firm. oversaw the creation of a working group on tobacco dependence treatment policy comprised of 18 experts in health policy, smoking cessation, and reimbursement.
July 1, 1997
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Program Result
From 1992 to 1995, researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Mich. developed a computer simulation model to evaluate the health, economic, and demographic implications of a worksite smoking cessation program.
September 1, 2003
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Program Result
A 2002 Intercultural Cancer Council conference in Washington, the "Eighth Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved and Cancer," included an Anti-Tobacco Day.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result
St. Peter's Medical Center and the American Society of Addiction Medicine held two conferences to explore the implications of products that claimed to deliver nicotine to smokers more safely than cigarettes.
June 20, 2012
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Program Result
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health surveyed 591 tobacco cessation programs for young people, evaluated 41 programs, and described programs that were sustained.
April 25, 2011
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Program Result
From 2006 to 2010, the North American Quitline Consortium, Oakland, Calif., worked to maximize the number of smokers who quit and to ensure the financial sustainability of quitlines.
March 17, 2011
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Program Result
A national study of 2,582 smokers ages 16 to 24, provides insights into whether young smokers tried to quit, the methods they used in trying to quit and factors that would predict their quitting patterns and success rates.
