More than a Decade of Helping Smokers Quit

RWJF's Investment in Tobacco Cessation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) used a three-pronged strategy to help people quit smoking: (1) “science push” (proving, improving and disseminating evidence-based cessation treatments); (2) “capacity building” (increasing the capacity of providers, health care systems and community services to deliver effective treatments); and (3) "market pull” (increasing policy-maker and consumer demand for proven treatment options).

This report covers all three strategies and the work RWJF funded, including:

  • Research on the effect of price increases in youth uptake of smoking;
  • Dissemination of the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline;
  • Paying special attention to helping pregnant smokers and youth quit using tobacco;
  • Building capacity for improved cessation treatment in managed care and other health care organizations;
  • Increasing consumer demand through policies to support cessation and improvements in the accessibility, reach and use of proven cessation services such as quitlines;
  • Making treatment more affordable and more appealing.

If you want to quit smoking call 1-800-QUIT NOW for help.

Preface: Connecting Public Health Law, Practice, Policy, and Research

  1. 1 Lawyers, Guns, and Money
  2. 2 Making the Case for Laws that Improve Health
  3. 3 What Gets Measured, Gets Changed
  4. 4 Health in All Policies
  5. 5 The Potential of Shared Decision Making to Reduce Health Disparities
  6. 6 Environmental Public Health Law
  7. 7 State Boards of Health
  8. 8 Policy Issues in American Indian Health Governance
  9. 9 Global Public Health Legal Responses to H1N1
  10. 10 Public Health Preparedness Laws and Policies
  11. 11 Protecting the Mental Health of First Responders
  12. 12 Five Legal Preparedness Challenges for Responding to Future Public Health Emergencies
  13. 13 Implementing Health Reform at the State Level
  14. 14 Rhetorical Federalism
  15. 15 Meaningful Use and Certification of Health Information Technology
  16. 16 Right to Health Litigation and HIV/AIDS Policy
  17. 17 The Role of Federal Preemption in Injury Prevention Litigation
  18. 18 Regulating Food Retail for Obesity Prevention
  19. 19 Pursuing Health Equity
  20. 20 The Michigan BioTrust for Health
  21. 21 Becoming the Standard
  22. 22 Smoking in Movies and Television
  23. 23 Clearing the Air
  24. 24 Social Norms and Attitudes About Smoking
  25. 25 More than a Decade of Helping Smokers Quit
  26. 26 The Impact of Tax and Smoke-Free Air Policy Changes
  27. 27 RWJF's Tobacco Work
  28. 28 Major Tobacco-Related Events in the United States
  29. 29 Surgeon General's Reports on Tobacco
  30. 30 The Way We Were
  31. 31 Tobacco-Control Work, 1991-2010
  32. 32 IMPACT

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