Tag Archive
Montana Tobacco Quit Line
The Montana Tobacco Quit Line is extending its May promotion of four weeks of free Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patches, gum or lozenges), the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) announced Monday. “The Quit Line had an increase in calls from the May promotion and we want to keep up the incentive to quit [...]
Tobacco damages dental health
The dangers of using tobacco are generally well known. Use of tobacco products can lead to heart and lung problems, as well as affect the way the body’s metabolism works. However, many people don’t realize that tobacco products can also have damaging effects on dental health. The use of tobacco, whether it is smoked or [...]
ND Health Department touts Tobacco Quitline
North Dakota’s health department says the state Tobacco Quitline has saved more than $5 million in health care costs since it began in September 2004. Quitline coordinator Michelle Walker says nearly 1,800 callers have stopped using tobacco with the Quitline’s help. She says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that $1,623 in [...]
DoD boosts quit tobacco efforts for 2010
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is delivering new focused content, as well as innovative tools and updated information, to help military men and women make 2010 the year they become tobacco free. The DoD-sponsored campaign, Quit Tobacco-Make Everyone Proud, at www.ucanquit2.org, is supporting military personnel in their efforts to ditch the addiction and leave [...]
Help available to stop smoking
LaPorte Regional Health System will offer several smoking cessation resources. # Choose To Be Tobacco Free is a program designed to explore, discover and uncover a plan that will work for individuals determined to end their addiction to smoking. The program will be from 6:15 to 7:45 p.m. Jan. 14 to Feb. 18 at The [...]
Tobacco Quit line Helps First Half-Million Callers
A free telephone service that helps Californians kick the smoking habit – funded by tobacco taxes approved by California voters and operated by the University of California, San Diego – reached a milestone today as the 500,000th person called for service. 1-800-NO-BUTTS, also known as the California Smokers’ Helpline, has been helping callers since 1992, [...]
Local Partners Study Mobile Support for DC Tobacco Quitline
A partnership of organizations in Washington, DC, will explore how effectively new media tools help District residents quit smoking. The American Legacy Foundation’s Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies received nearly $980,000 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to carry out a randomized controlled [...]
State cuts funds for tobacco quit line
Eau Claire – Some smokers hoping to kick the habit by calling the state’s tobacco quit line may be out of luck. The state budget cut funding for the quit line by 55 percent. There will no change for smokers with no health coverage or for those with Medicaid but services are being cut for [...]
State cuts Tobacco Quit Line funding despite tax increases
Starting Thursday, smokers with health insurance who call the state Quit Line for help kicking their habit will get less help, the result of a 55 percent cut in state funding to smoking cessation and anti-smoking programs. In spite of soaring state cigarette taxes, the Quit Line’s funding was slashed by two-thirds – from $3.7 [...]
Anti-smoking clinics’ claims stubbed out
Quit smoking clinics have been told to stop making unproven and misleading claims for the success of hypnotherapy and ‘laser acupuncture’ in smoking cessation. The ACCC has obtained a court order forcing a hypnotherapy clinic ‘Stop Smoking in One Hour’ to publish corrective notices after its owners admitted it could not back its claims of [...]
Millions more spent on helping smokers
THOUSANDS more people will be helped to quit smoking under ambitious targets set by health bosses. NHS Stoke-on-Trent is to invest an extra £7 million in new and existing initiatives aimed at making people kick the weed and get themselves fitter. Smoking is the single most preventable cause of ill health and death in Stoke-on-Trent. [...]
Quit smoking with the help of SRC health dept.
Beginning Sept. 8, the Santa Rosa County Health Department (SRCHD) will offer free smoking cessation classes in Midway. SRCHD is partnering with the West Florida Area Health Education Center (AHEC) to offer this service at no cost. Classes are open to all Santa Rosa County residents, and smokeless tobacco users are also welcome. The class [...]
Newport Schools receive $75,000 for tobacco control
The Arkansas Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program has funded the Newport Special School District $75,000 to continue efforts to decrease and eliminate tobacco use in the Newport Schools and in the community. Tobacco use rates have been declining statewide, and local coalitions such as the Newport Special School District play an integral [...]
New rules prompt 9 to quit First 5 advisory panel
Nine early-childhood experts quit a First 5 San Diego advisory group after the agency made them choose between committee service and millions of dollars in grants for their employers. The policy change was ordered following a June report in The San Diego Union-Tribune that more than $67 million was paid directly to groups employing technical [...]
