Research

Collaborating with diabetes educators to promote smoking cessation for people with diabetes: The California experience
A recent article in the journal Diabetes Education provides the evaluation results of a campaign to address the smoking cessation needs of people with diabetes in California. The “Do you cAARd” campaign was developed through a partnership of diabetes educators, the California Department of Public Health's Diabetes and Tobacco Control Programs, and the California Smokers' Helpline. The program provided tobacco cessation information to diabetes educators through educational presentations and an online toolkit in an effort to increase referrals to the state tobacco quitline. Evaluation data suggests that the program raised diabetes educators’ awareness and utilization of smoking cessation resources, and was effective in increasing referrals of diabetes patients to the California Smokers' Helpline. Click here to read the abstract of the study, or click here to view materials from the California Diabetes Program’s “Do You cAARd” campaign.

Study: Do hospitals do enough to help smokers quit?
A new study indicates that nearly all hospitalized smokers in the U.S. are given some advice or counseling on how to quit, yet the authors of the study and other experts believe there is a need for hospitals to make the smoking cessation advice more intensive and effective. Rather than calling for specific smoking cessation counseling procedures, the existing guidelines for hospitals merely require hospitals to provide some sort of smoking cessation advice to smokers admitted for pneumonia, heart attack or heart failure. Although hospitals adopted the rules quickly and fully when they were issued in 2002, the Joint Commission, the nonprofit agency that accredits and certifies over 19,000 U.S. healthcare organizations, has since recognized that the guidelines were not strict enough and is in the process of adopting new smoking cessation performance measures. Click here to read more, or click here to view the article in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Click here for information about the November 3rd webinar hosted by the Partnership for Prevention on the forthcoming Joint Commission smoking cessation measures for hospitals.

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Reports

State hopes graphic ads will get people to stop smoking (OR)
The state of Oregon is airing a new series of graphic television ads that show the problems caused by smoking in an attempt to persuade people to quit or never start smoking. Oregon is paying for the $500,000 campaign with taxes collected on tobacco sales. An Oregon epidemiologist believes that the ads will clearly depict the long-term effects of tobacco use, make it impossible for smokers to deny the health effects, and prompt them to think about quitting. Learn more by clicking here.

Grants will help Wisconsin moms-to-be quit smoking (WI)
Wisconsin’s Women’s Health Foundation will administer $3 million in federal grants to help pregnant and postpartum Wisconsin women quit smoking. The money will fund First Breath, a program that helps pregnant women with cessation, in all Federally Qualified Health Centers across the state where the program is not already established. The funds will also be used to educate clinicians on cessation techniques as well as to test out whether financial incentives help pregnant women quit smoking. Read more here.

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