Quitlines
North American Quitline Consortium
NAQC website offers information exchange, resources, and evaluation of quitlines in the United States and Canada.
NAQC Reports, Tools and Resource Guides:
Partnering to Promote Quitlines: Assessment of Promotion Plan Strategies (2009)
This report summarizes efforts outlined in the 2008 National Quitline Promotion Plan featured below. It assesses and monitors implementation of the Plan's coordination strategies.
National Quitline Promotion Plan (2009)
This report addresses the challenging issue of promoting 1-800-QUIT-NOW on a national level.
Exploring a National Data Warehouse for U.S. Quitlines (2009)
The North American Quitline Consortium National Data Warehouse Workgroup was formed in February 2009 to assist NAQC in providing guidance and input to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on possible benefits of and challenges to gathering state-owned quitline data in a central location. This report reflects their guidance, as well as the workgroup’s commitment to ensuring the quality of quitline services, data and operations.
Realizing Opportunities: Implementation Assessment of the Minimal Data Set in North America (2008)
This report presents the findings of the the assessment of the Minimal Data Set in North America.
Promotion Task Force Report (2007)
The NAQC Promotion Task Force developed this report synthesizing current knowledge about the promotion of quitlines and identification of applicable action-oriented recommendations to NAQC.
NAQC Policy Playbook (2008)
This web-based resource from the North American Quitline Consortium focuses on promoting the availability of quitline services following the passage of smokefree policies and tobacco excise tax increases.
Quitline Operations: Back to Basics
A resource guide that offers a compilation of lessons learned from the North American Quitline Consortium’s Third Conference Call Training Series. Available through the North American Quitline Consortium.
Smoking Cessation Quitlines Maps and Facts
Provides a state-by-state list of toll-free telephone numbers that offer counseling and information about quitting smoking. Available through the North American Quitline Consortium.
Quitline Operations: A Practical Guide to Promising Approaches (2005)
Available through the North American Quitline Consortium.
Pregnancy and Post-partum Quitline Toolkit (2007)
A toolkit developed by the National Partnership to help Pregnant Smokers Quit that provides information specific to quitting during pregnancy that can be integrated into already existing quitline services.
CDC Quitline Resource Guide: Strategies for Effective Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (September 2004)
Helps states, health care organizations, and quitline operators enhance existing quitline services, and inform those interested in learning more about population-based approaches to tobacco cessation. Published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Linking a Network: Integrate Quitlines with Health Care Systems
The Linking a Network report of the Pacific Center on Health and Tobacco describes a new, emerging model for quitlines. In this model, quitlines expand beyond only providing services and take on a broader role as a centralized state resource for providing quitting information, using new cost-sharing approaches with private insurance to provide services, and serve as a referral center linking callers with health plan and community programs.
The California Smokers' Helpline: A Case Study (2000)
Provides background information, presents a rationale for the Helpline, gives an overview of services and describes quality of services.
Ask-Advise-Refer Fact Sheet on Quitlines
Ask-Advise-Refer is the American Dental Hygienists Association’s (ADHA) national Smoking Cessation Initiative (SCI) designed to promote cessation intervention by dental hygienists.
Publications:
Barland R, Segan CJ, Livingston PM, Owen N. The effectiveness of callback counseling for smoking cessation: a randomized trial. Addiction. 2001;96:881-889.
Ossip-Klein DJ, McIntosh S. Quitlines in North America: evidence base and applications. American Journal of Medical Science 2003;326(4):2001-2005.
Stead LF, Lancaster T, Perera R. Telephopne counseling for smoking cessation (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library Issue 2, 2004. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Van Deusen, AM, Hyland, A, et al. Smokers' acceptance of "cold calls" offering quitline services data. Tobacco Control 2007;16(Suppl_1):i30-i32. Available at: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/Suppl_1/i30
Zhu, SH, Anderson CM, et al. Evidence of real-world effectiveness of a telephone quitline for smokers. N Eng J of Med 2002 347;14: 1087-93.
Zhu, SH, Mercer T. Rosbrook, B. Pierce, JP. Smoking Cessation with and without: A population analysis. Am J Prev Med 2002;18(4):305-311.
Quitlines (December 2007)
Supplement published by the journal, Tobacco Control.
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