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March 7, 2009 | Program Result Report
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.
July 23, 2009 | Story
While working as a senior policy analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency in 1984, James Repace, MSc, estimated that secondhand smoke caused 5,000 U.S. lung cancer deaths each year.
June 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Mathematica Policy Research (Princeton, N.J.) conducted a national survey of 2,804 health professionals to determine their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behavior regarding smoking and smoking cessation.
June 3, 2006 | Program Result Report
Between July 2002 and June 2005, researchers at Roswell Park examined whether use of these nicotine replacement therapies (also called NRT) and smoking quit rates changed after reclassification.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
From July 2002 to July 2005, staff from the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the United Nations (UN) Medical Services Division collaborated to develop a worksite health promotion program, with a particular focus on smoking cessation, for employees at UN headquarters.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
From February 1996 to August 1998, Lois Biener, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Boston Center for Survey Research examined the reactions of adult residents in Massachusetts to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Boston University School of Public Health evaluated the utilization and effectiveness of the statewide telephone-based Massachusetts Smokers' Quitline.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The University of Wisconsin helped the Allina Medical Clinic to conduct a group randomized trial to determine the effectiveness of a smoking cessation strategy based on the ACHPR guideline.
June 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
In 2002, project staff at the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Health Research and Policy held a one-day meeting to explore how regulations, particularly those of internal review boards, affect youth smoking cessation research.
July 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The State of Oregon Department of Human Resources evaluated the results of efforts by the Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon to implement the Oregon Tobacco Cessation Guidelines in the 14 managed care health plans contracting with the Oregon Health Plan.