Cessation Materials in Russian – 5/20/05

Q:

Does anyone know of any smoking cessation materials in Russian?

A:

  1. California: The Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California carries the following pieces in Russian:
    • Facts About Smoking Card #J552 Russian/English. Provides basic facts about the negative health effects of smoking.
    • How to Help a Family Member to Quit Smoking #J699. Russian/English brochure how to help if a relative is thinking about quitting, what to do once that person quits, and to manage withdrawal, etc.
    • Please Don’t Smoke in Our Home sign #J564 Russian.
    • Don’t Close Your Eyes to the Effects of Secondhand Smoke #J626 Russian language brochure about the dangers of secondhand smoke.
    • Secondhand Smoke and Your Family #J667 Russian language poster.
     
    Call 831-438-4822 x230 or 103 to order.
    View materials at the TECC website: www.tobaccofreecatalog.org

    Additionally, the California Department of Health Services, Tobacco Control Section funds a Russian Tobacco Education Project that conduct Russian language cessation programs. Contact Linette Escobar at 415-682-1963 or lesunset@hotmail.com
     
  2. Massachusetts: under contract to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. developed two Russian language materials. One, a "Please Dont Smoke in our Home" sign with basic secondhand hand smoke info on the back is on the Web at:
    http://trytostop.org/downloads/pdf/Russian.pdf.

    The second with basic facts about smoking, (the English is on side 2) is at:
    http://trytostop.org/more_info/pdf/Russian_Facts.pdf

    They are very basic, and not exactly what you described, but I thought I'd pass them on. Each of these is part of a multiple-language series (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Khmer, Haitian Creole, Russian, Albanian and Bosnian). In 2000 the World Health Organization distributed the entie series of Please Don't Smoke in OUr Home signs worldwide for World No Tobacco Day.

    JSI has extensive experience developing in-depth print cessation guides and material. If your questioner is interested in commissioning a piece or in getting technical assistance (do you all still fund TA?), we are most certainly interested. (Plus, our graphic designer is Russian and that certainly helps enormously!)
     
  3. New York: contact Joanne Koldare at jkoldare@health.nyc.gov at the New York City Department of Health.
     
     
    General Suggestions - some thoughts would be:
     
    1. Contact WHO
    2. Contact the official Russian Public Health Ministry
    3. Contact counties in states where there is a high Russian population, such as New York City and Washington, D.C.
    4. Contact universities where there are large numbers of international students who might have materials in Russian for foreign students.
       
     
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