Additional Resources

Agencies

Action on Smoking and Health

2013 H Street, N. W.
Washington DC 20006
202-659-4310
website: http://ash.org/

Produces materials on a variety of smoking and health topics for the public with emphasis on legal action to protect non-smokers' health. Individual papers and materials available.

• Taking Action To Protect You and Your Family From Tobacco Smoke, includes information on the effects of passive smoking, children and smoking, and women and smoking; $4.95.
• Taking Action To Protect Yourself From Tobacco Smoke in the Workplace, includes information on workplace nonsmokers' rights, filing for worker's compensation, the ADA and sensitive nonsmokers, and contains an OSHA complaint form and guidelines for filing a complaint; $9.95.
• Taking Action To Protect Yourself From Tobacco Smoke in Public Places, includes information on smoking in apartment buildings, hospitals, restaurants, college campuses, etc.; $4.95.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

540 Gaither Road
Rockville, MD 20850
301-427-1364
http://www.ahrq.gov/path/tobacco.htm, and also available in print;

AHRQ offers clinicians and consumers a wide array of evidence-based, nationally recognized tobacco cessation tools designed to encourage all clinicians to help their patients quit using tobacco and adopt a healthier lifestyle.

• The Clinician's Packet is a how-to guide for implementing the PHS Clinical Practice Guideline, contains information about advising patients, special populations, developing a system, reimbursement; and products for clinicians and consumers.
• The You Can Quit Smoking Consumer Kit has information to help smokers become tobacco-free. Available in English, Spanish, and easy-to-read formats.

American Cancer Society

1599 Clifton Road, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30329
1-800-ACS-2345
website: www.cancer.org

American Heart Association

7272 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75231
1-800-AHA-USA1 (242-8721)
http://www.americanheart.org

• How to Avoid Weight Gain When Quitting Smoking, is a pamphlet that offers possible solutions to avoid weight gain while quitting smoking; contact local AHA for prices and ordering information.
• Smoking and Heart Disease, is a pamphlet that gives facts about smoking and heart disease; contact local AHA for prices and ordering information.
• Calling It Quits, is a folder that contains two pamphlets with tips on how to stop smoking and remain a nonsmoker; contact local AHA for prices and ordering information.

American Lung Association

61 Broadway, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10006
website: www.lungusa.org

• Freedom From Smoking, is a self help book which gives suggestions on preparing to stop smoking, picking a day to stop, stopping for good, and benefits of stopping; 46pp, consult local ALA chapters for prices and ordering information.
• Freedom From Smoking for You and your Baby (kit), is a 10-day stop-smoking program specifically for pregnant women. It assists in analyzing what determines smoking patterns, reasons for wanting to quit, ways to break the smoking pattern, and methods to reinforce the new habit of not smoking; 1987, 32pp, consult local ALA chapters for prices and ordering information.
• Stop Smoking...Control Your Weight is a pamphlet that addresses the problem of weight gain after stopping smoking; 1994, consult local ALA chapters for prices and ordering information.
• NOT - Not on Tobacco - a 10-session curriculum to assist teens to quit smoking. Contact your local American Lung Association for information on training NOT program leaders.

American Legacy Foundation

2030 M Street, NW
Sixth Floor
Washington, DC 20036

202-454-5555 phone
202-454-5599 fax
info@americanlegacy.org
w ebsite: www.americanlegacy.org

The American Legacy Foundation is dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit.

Center for Disease Control

1600 Clifton Rd
Atlanta, GA 30333
404-639-3311
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/

Contains information and reports about the consequences and harm caused by tobacco related products.

Community Preventive Services

The Guide to Community Preventive Services addresses the effectiveness of community-based interventions for three strategies to promote tobacco use prevention and control: 1) prevent tobacco product use initiation, 2) increase cessation and 3) reduce exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The findings strengthen and complement existing guidelines on tobacco prevention and control.

National Cancer Institute

Office of Cancer Communications
Building 31, Room 10A24
Bethesda, MD 20892
phone: 1-800-4-CANCER
http://www.cancer.gov

• Clearing the Air--How to Quit Smoking and Quit for Keep, this is a guide to help the individual think about why he or she smokes, the benefits of stopping, preparing to stop, knowing what to expect, and handling relapse; 1995, 24pp.
• Why Do You Smoke? includes a short questionnaire that addresses questions on cigarette stimulation, handling, accentuation of pleasure, reduction of negative feelings, and psychological addiction and habit. A self-scoring method is included for self-evaluation to determine reasons for smoking and suggestions on how to stop smoking; 1993 free, 15 pp, limit of 10 ordered at one time.
• Smoking Facts and Tips For Quitting/Datos Y Consejos Para Dejar De Fumar, is a booklet in English and Spanish that addresses smoking cessation and relapse; 1994, free, 5 pp, limit of 200 ordered at one time.
• I Mind Very Much If You Smoke, is a booklet that gives facts about secondhand smoke and gives suggestions on how to say no to secondhand smoke; 1993, 8 pp.
• Smoking: Facts and Quitting Tips For Black Americans, is a pamphlet that gives facts about health risks and statistics of smoking with Black Americans; 1992.To help provide help for those trying to quit tobacco a national network of quit lines will be available to everyone. By providing one national quit line HHS hopes to enhance already existing quitting programs by extending their hours, hiring bilingual staff, or building referral links with local care systems. For those areas without an existing program funds will be provided to help build and staff a new quit line office. The national quit line is currently available in all areas Monday through Friday from 8-4:30 in both English and Spanish at 1-877-44U-QUIT (1-877-448-7848), and via internet at www.cancer.gov/newscenter/NationalQuitline.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Suite 800
1707 L Street NW
Washington DC 20036
202-296-5469
website: www.tobaccofreekids.org

Provides information and develops media campaigns, and provides assistance to state and community tobacco control programs.

Smoking Cessation Leadership Center

website: smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center works with leaders of health professions and health care institutions to help them do a better job of identifying patients who smoke and steering these smokers into treatment.

World Health Organization

website: http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/

1997 Tobacco or Health:  A Global Status Report lists smoking prevalence date for countries around the world.  Each country is profiled with their sociodemographic characteristics, health status, tobacco production, trade, industry, consumption, and prevalence, mortality from tobacco use, and tobacco control measures.