|
Intervention |
Recommendation |
Intervention
Description |
|
Strategies to
reduce exposure to environmental
tobacco smoke (ETS) |
|
Smoking bans and
restrictions |
Strongly
recommended |
Bans or limits
tobacco smoking in workplaces and
public areas (policies,
regulations, and laws). |
|
Community
education to reduce home ETS
exposure |
Insufficient
evidence* |
Provides
information to persons about
reducing ETS exposure in the home. |
|
Strategies to
reduce tobacco-use initiation |
|
Increasing the
unit price of tobacco products |
Strongly
recommended |
Increases the
excise tax on cigarettes
(government legislation). |
|
Mass media
education to reduce tobacco-use
initiation - campaigns |
Strongly
recommended (when combined with
other interventions) |
Informs viewers
through long-term, high-intensity
counter advertising campaigns. |
|
Strategies to
increase tobacco-use cessation
(for community-wide use) |
|
Increasing the
unit price of tobacco products |
Strongly
recommended |
Increases the
excise tax on cigarettes
(government legislation). |
|
Mass media
education to increase tobacco-use
cessation -- campaigns |
Strongly
recommended |
Informs viewers
through long-term, high-intensity
counter advertising campaigns. |
|
Mass media
education to increase tobacco-use
cessation -- series |
Insufficient
evidence* |
Recruits and
motivates tobacco users to quit
during the course of a short-term
broadcast cessation series. |
|
Mass media
education to increase tobacco-use
cessation -- contests |
Insufficient
evidence |
Recruits and
motivates tobacco users to
participate in a targeted
cessation date.
Uses short-term
mass media messages to promote
contest and to recruit
participants. |
|
Strategies to
increase tobacco-use cessation
(for health care systems) |
|
Multicomponent
tobacco-use cessation
interventions that include
telephone support |
Strongly
recommended |
Provides
information and motivation to
tobacco product users via
telephone contact.
Proactive
telephones support includes
provider-maintained contact.
Reactive
telephone support requires
patient-initiated contact. |
|
Multicomponent
program including provider
reminder system plus
provider education program with
or without patient education |
Strongly
recommended |
Educates and
prompts health-care providers to
identify, advise, and assist
tobacco-using patients in
cessation efforts. |
|
Provider
reminder systems |
Recommended |
Informs or
prompts providers to determine
patient's tobacco-use status
and/or deliver brief advice to
quit. |
|
Reducing patient
out-of-pocket costs for effective
cessation therapies |
Recommended |
Reduces or
eliminates patient co-payment for
effective cessation therapies. |
|
Provider
education only |
Insufficient
evidence* |
Provides
information to health-care
providers on the importance of
cessation for tobacco-using
patients. |
|
Provider
feedback |
Insufficient
evidence* |
Provides
retrospective assessment of
provider performance in delivery
of tobacco cessation advice or
assistance to patients. |
|
Youth access
restrictions |
Pending |
Regulates and
enforces bans on the purchase or
consumption of tobacco products by
children and adolescents (laws). |
|
School-based
education |
Pending |
Provides
information and motivation to
children and adolescents to
diminish the uptake of tobacco
product use. |
|
Tobacco industry
restrictions |
Pending |
Regulates
tobacco product content, labeling,
or industry promotion and
advertising (laws). |
