Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network

A network linking state and national cessation leaders to share information, resources and strategies.

The Network’s convening activity concluded in 2008. This site is kept as a record of the material it published.

Comprehensive Approaches

This page reproduces material published by the Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network between 2005 and 2008. Names, roles, partners and funders are as published at that time and do not describe any current relationship, endorsement or funding. Nothing here is medical advice.

Tobacco Cessation

CDC’s Cessation Resource Center
Provides user-tested cessation materials on implementing health care system change, community initiatives, business resources, reimbursement options, quitlines, and evaluation methods.

Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths; Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan on Tobacco Cessation (February 2003)
Submitted to DHHS by the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health.

A National Blueprint for Disseminating and Implementing Evidence-Based Clinical and Community Strategies to Promote Tobacco-Use Cessation (September 2002)
A collaboration between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Cancer Society, American Legacy Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Cancer Institute, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Preparing for Action: Implementing the Youth and Adult Tobacco-Use Cessation National Blueprints (July 2003)
Developed by the Center for Tobacco Cessation with support from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

  • The National Blueprint for Action: Youth and Young Adult Tobacco-Use Cessation (2000)
    Published by the Center for the Advancement on Health for the Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative.
  • Activity Highlights (November 2002)
  • Activity Highlights (November 2001)

Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Cessation: Next Steps for Tobacco Control (November 2003)
This report provides an overview of the Pacific Center on Health and Tobacco’s comprehensive approach for statewide tobacco cessation programs.

An Executive Summary by the Center for Tobacco Cessation Policy Roundtable on Statewide Cessation Services (December 2003)
From Challenge to Opportunity: Organizing, Financing, and Delivering Statewide Tobacco Cessation Services and Activities.

Tobacco Control

Guide to Community Preventive Services: Tobacco Use Prevention and Control (2001)
This guide provides evidenced-based recommendations on interventions most appropriate for reducing tobacco use and exposure for different populations. Developed by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, appointed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC’s Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs (August 1999)
Best practices determined by evidence-based analyses of comprehensive state tobacco control programs. Published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Program and Funding Guidelines for Comprehensive Local Tobacco Control Programs (March 2001)
The National Association of City and County Health Officials’ (NACCHO) guidelines refine the CDC’s Best Practices to address tobacco control at the local level.

Tobacco Prevention and Control: Implementing Comprehensive Programs, 2nd Edition (May 2004)
National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) developed this resource guide to assist local public health agencies and their partners in implementing NACCHO’s Program and Funding Guidelines for Comprehensive Local Tobacco Control Programs.

Tobacco Prevention and Control Project
The National Association of City and County Health Officials’ (NACCHO) Tobacco Prevention and Control Project aims to strengthen local health departments' capacity to engage in tobacco use prevention and control.

Basics of Tobacco Control (BOTC)- Pathway to Change
A comprehensive tobacco control resource that is available through the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium. BOTC includes information, strategies, and tools to help individuals and local, state, and national organizations.

Making the Case: State Tobacco Control Policy Briefing Papers (2000)
Designed to facilitate discussion and analysis among tobacco control advocates, legislators and the public about the most effective way to secure funding for comprehensive tobacco control programs. Available through the Advocacy Institute.

Special Reports: State Tobacco Settlement (November 2005)
This annual report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids assesses whether states are using the proceeds from the 1998 state tobacco settlement to fund programs to reduce tobacco use.

State of Tobacco Control: 2005
A report from the American Lung Association that grades federal and state tobacco control laws and regulations enacted as of December 31, 2005.

Tobacco Control Data

NCI Smoking and Tobacco Control Monographs: National Cancer Institute Smoking and Tobacco Control Monographs 1-16 are available online at: http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/tcrb/monographs/index.html.

QuiTIP Database
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids developed this free, searchable, on-line database that contains information on products sold in the US and internationally as tobacco use cessation aids.

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Recommendations and Reports (Tobacco)

CDC State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System
An online compilation of state-based tobacco information combining multiple data sources that provides comprehensive summary information on tobacco use in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Tobacco Use Supplement (TUS-CPS)
NCI-sponsored survey of tobacco use administered as part of the US Census Bureau's Current Population Survey.

NIDA InfoFacts: Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products (March 2005)
National Institute on Drug Abuse fact sheet.

FedStats
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

Published 2005–2008 · Reviewed 10 August 2026

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