Employers and Purchasers
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.
Build
a Financial Infrastructure: Health Plan Benefits and Provider
Reimbursement (April 2003)
Pacific Center on Health and Tobacco.
Health
Insurance Benefits (April 2003)
At-a-glance summary from the Pacific Center on Health and
Tobacco report, “Build a Financial Infrastructure”.
Invest
in Tobacco Cessation for a Healthy Productive Workforce (2003)
Brief overview of the business case for providing tobacco
cessation benefits to employees (Pacific Center on Health
and Tobacco).
Employers’
Smoking Cessation Guide: Practical Approaches to a Costly
Workplace Problem (2002)
This guide from PACT (Professional Assisted Cessation Therapy)
makes the business case for employer involvement in smoking
cessation.
Healthy
Workforce 2010: An Essential Health Promotion Sourcebook for
Employers, Large and Small (2001)
Strategies and rationale for investing in worksite health
promotion from the Partnership for Prevention.
Preventive
Services: Helping Employers Expand Coverage (2002)
Results from employer focus groups on clinical preventive
service coverage (Partnership for Prevention).
Addressing
Tobacco in Managed Care: A Resource Guide to Health Plans
(January 2001)
This guide provides information, examples and other resources
for health plans interested in developing, implementing and
evaluating effective interventions aimed at reducing tobacco
use.
CDC’s
Coverage for Tobacco Use Cessation Treatment (2004)
A four-page guide on coverage for tobacco cessation treatment
and options available through the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
Reducing
the Burden of Smoking on Employee Health and Productivity
(2003)
Issue brief summarizing meeting proceedings and key issues
from the Smoking Cessation Solution Seminar sponsored by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Making
your Workplace Smoke-Free: A Decision Maker’s Guide
This guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
provides information on how to design, implement, and evaluate
environmental tobacco smokes (ETS) policies and related activities.
Helping
your pregnant employees quit smoking
Available through the National Partnership to Help Pregnant
Smokers Quit.
What
Do I Need to Know about Labor Unions and Tobacco? (2002)
Fact sheet on organized labor and tobacco issues from the
Organized Labor & Tobacco Control Network.
Tobacco
Cessation Toolkit for Employers / Colorado (2003)
Colorado Business Group on Health’s toolkit for employers.
Employers
and Smoking Cessation
Perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge about smoking cessation
benefits (April 2004) / California
Available through the California Tobacco Control Alliance.
Tobacco-Free
Coalition of Oregon’s “Make It Your Business”
Employer’s Tool Kit / Oregon (2004)
Available through the Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon.
Make
it Your Business: A Tobacco-Free Workplace / North Dakota
(January 2005)
North Dakota Tobacco Prevention and Control Program’s
toolkit for employers.
Profits
and Productivity Going Up in Smoke? Tobacco Cessation at the
Worksite / Colorado
Toolkit to assist employers in implementing smoke-free policies
in the workplace, investigating health plan coverage for tobacco
cessation benefits, and informing employees about the Colorado
cessation services (Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative
(CCGC) and the Colorado Business Group on Health (CBCH).
Websites:
Organized
Labor & Tobacco Control Network (OLTCN)
OLTCN is funded by the American Legacy Foundation to promote
collaboration between individuals and organizations that represent
labor and tobacco control movements.
WorkSHIFTS
A program of the William and Mitchell Tobacco Law Center working
with the labor community in Minnesota.
“Smoking
Cessation Benefits Everyone” campaign / California
California Tobacco Control Alliance’s campaign to persuade
health plans to implement their model smoking cessation benefit
that provides coverage for behavioral therapy as well as medications.
“Make
It Your Business” campaign / Oregon
Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon’s campaign to encourage
businesses to cover and promote cessation services for employees.
Business
Case for Smoking Cessation Website & ROI (Return on Investment)
Calculator
Available through the America’s Health Insurance Plans
(AHIP).
Publications:
Barendregt JJ, Bonneux L, van der Mass PJ. The health care costs of smoking. N Engl J Med 1997;337:1052-1057.
Furhmans, Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2005. 2004 Benefits Survey Report of the Society for Human Resource Management. www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=23516.
Halpern MT, Shikar R, Rentz AM, Kahn ZM. Impact of smoking status on workplace absenteeism and productivity. Tobacco Control 2001;10:233-238.
Harris JR, Schauffler HH, Milstein A, Powers P, Hopkins DP. Expanding health insurance coverage for smoking cessation treatments: experience of the Pacific Business Group on Health. American Journal of Health Promotion 2001;15(5):350-6.
Schauffler HH. Defining benefits and payments for smoking cessation treatments. Tobacco Control 1997;6: Suppl:S81-85.
Warner KE, Smith RJ, Smith DG, Fries BE. Health and economic implications of a work-site smoking cessation program: A simulation analysis. JOEM 1996; 38(10):981-992.
Published 2005–2008 · Reviewed 10 August 2026