Employers and Purchasers
Investing in a Tobacco-Free Future
This publication from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and the Partnership for Prevention, gives insight to how a business or community can benefit from going tobacco free by improving productivity and profit while reducing health care costs.
Employer Tobacco Control Strategies Video Series
These videos from the Partnership for Prevention feature case studies to assist employers and the community for tobacco control by maximizing the preventive impact of the services.
Tobacco Cessation Benefit Coverage and Consumer Engagement Strategies: A California Perspective (June 2008 revised)
This publication from the Pacific Business Group on Health includes specific information about tobacco cessation coverage by insurers in California and more general information about the value of such benefits.
A Purchaser’s Guide to Clinical Preventative Services: Moving Science into Coverage
The National Business group on health hosts this site. In addition to providing strong rationale for covering tobacco cessation treatment. It includes technical language to describe and fill for an effective benefit. Click to view guide.
Report from Partnership for Prevention: Preventive Care: A National Profile on Use, Disparities and Health Benefits (August 2007)
The report demonstrates the underuse of effective preventive care in the United States and the importance to make these cost-effective services affordable and accessible for all Americans.
“Make It Your Business” Employer’s Tool Kit
Make It Your Business urges businesses and insurance companies to voluntarily cover and promote help for smokers who want to quit.
Make it Your Business: Strategies for a Tobacco-Free Workplace in Wisconsin (August 2007)
This Employer Toolkit is a resource specifically for Wisconsin businesses and is a comprehensive guide for helping a business/worksite go tobacco-free and helping interested employees quit using tobacco.
The Business Case for a Smoke-free Workplace is Clear
Information from the University of Wisconsin, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
Key Elements of a Model Tobacco Use Treatment Benefit (2006)
A factsheet from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
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 (second edition).
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.
Save Lives, Save Money: Make Your Business Smoke Free (June 2006)
A booklet from the CDC that makes the case for establishing tobacco-free policies at work.
Tobacco Cessation Toolkit for Employers / Colorado (2003)
Colorado Business Group on Health’s toolkit for employers.
Employers and Smoking Cessation (April 2004)
Perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge about smoking cessation benefits.
Available through the California Tobacco Control Alliance.
Designing a Model Cessation Benefit for Managed Care Coverage (November 2002)
This document provides an overview of the progress made in designing a new benefit for covering cessation services. Available through the California Tobacco Control Alliance.
Make it Your Business: A Tobacco-Free Workplace / North Dakota (Updated June 2009)
North Dakota Tobacco Prevention and Control Program’s toolkit for employers.
Trends in the Delivery and Reimbursement of Tobacco Dependence Treatment (September 2005)
Summary of the TCLN roundtable discussion on this topic
Websites:
Tobacco, the Business of Quitting: An Employer’s Website for Tobacco Cessation
This website is sponsored by the National Business Group on Health, Center for Prevention and Health Services. It provides employers with tools and information to make informed decisions on tobacco cessation benefits, programs, and worksite policies in the United States and worldwide.
WorkSHIFTS
A program of the William and Mitchell Tobacco Law Center working with the labor community in Minnesota.
“Make It Your Business” campaign
Make It Your Business urges businesses and insurance companies to voluntarily cover and promote help for smokers who want to quit.
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.
Halpin, H.A, McMenamin, SB, Shade, SB. The demand for health insurance coverage for tobacco dependence treatments: support for a benefit mandate and willingness to pay. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2007; 9(12): 1269-1276.
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.
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