Program Notes

Community Guide Recommendations

• Preventing Tobacco Use initiation
  • Increase price
  • Media campaign
• Increasing Cessation
  • Provider education
  • Patient reminder system
  • Quit line
• Reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
  • Smoking bans and restrictions

Tobacco Price Effects

• 10% Increase
• 3.7% Decrease in adolescents
• 4.1% Decrease in general population

Provider Education and Provider/Reminder Effects

• Provider Advice up 20 percent
• Patient Quit Rate up 4.7 percent