August 8, 2011
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Program Result
From 2008 to 2011, the American Legacy Foundation ran "Become an EX," a national smoking cessation media campaign that portrayed quitting smoking as a challenging yet achievable goal.
December 16, 2010
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Program Result
This program was a multifaceted effort to reduce smoking among pregnant women and to help them remain tobacco free.
December 9, 2010
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Program Result
In 2005 tobacco control leaders formed the Consumer Demand Roundtable to shift the tobacco control field to seeing smokers as consumers of cessation products and services by making treatments more appealing and consumer friendly.
July 15, 2010
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Program Result
The Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention updated educational information and tools in a revised tobacco cessation treatment guideline, created new ones, and disseminated them to clinicians and consumers to spur the guideline's widespread use.
March 1, 2002
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Program Result
St. Peter's Medical Center, New Brunswick, N.J., set up a statewide training program to help drug and alcohol treatment providers develop nicotine treatment protocols.
June 1, 2001
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Program Result
The nonprofit Overview Foundation, Canaan, Conn., carried out an expansion of efforts of its Mountainside Treatment Center to incorporate nicotine dependence into its substance abuse treatment program.
July 31, 2009
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Program Result
In 2003, a team from UCLA School of Nursing launched Tobacco-Free Nurses, the first national effort created to help nurses quit smoking, provide resources to nurses who want to help their patients quit and promote tobacco control on the agenda of nursing organizations.
July 22, 2009
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Program Result
Innovators Combating Substance Abuse (Innovators) was a national program to foster innovation in the substance abuse field by granting awards to established leaders in substance abuse prevention, treatment and policy to pursue work that might not otherwise be funded.
May 28, 2009
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Program Result
In anticipation of receiving $10 billion to administer a national smoking cessation program pursuant to a court-approved settlement with tobacco companies, officials at the CDC Foundation began to develop a business plan.
March 7, 2009
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Program Result
The Center for the Advancement of Health, Washington, convened the Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative whose aim is to coordinate the efforts of major national funders involved in designing and disseminating effective youth cessation programs.
