Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program News:
v The next Tobacco Coordinators Monthly Conference call will be held February 7th at 9:30am EST.
Call in Information
Dial In Number - 1-866-889-3903
Participant Passcode – 515701#
v Tobacco Coordinators please update any personnel changes and ensure contact information is correct in Catalyst. If you require assistance with Catalyst please contact Dennis Peyton at
Local/State News:
v Representative Susan Westrom intends to file the Smoke-free Kentucky Act on Thursday, January 19th. To mark the occasion, there will be a press conference in the rotunda. Details on the event are below.
WHO: State Representative Susan Westrom (D-Fayette)
Robert Powell, M.D
Roger Cline, Smoke-free Volunteer
Barry Gottschalk, President and CEO of the American Lung Association of the Midland States
WHAT: Bill drop and State of Tobacco Control Report card released
WHERE: Capitol Rotunda, Frankfort, KY
WHEN: Thursday, January 19th, 1 PM
v Kentucky Receives its Report Card on Tobacco Control. See link below to access the report.
State of Tobacco Control 2012
v If you haven’t already done so, please visit the Smoke-Free Kentucky Facebook page. Smoke-Free Kentucky will be engaging in a Smoke-Free Kentucky Facebook Status Blast in order to reach 400 “likes” by January 19.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Smoke-free-Kentucky-Take- Action/123234627746612
National News:
v Kick Butts Day 2012 falls on March 21st, and now is the time to encourage communities to start planning their KBD events. To learn more about Kick Butts Day, visit:
www.kickbuttsday.org
Other Items of Interest:
v Tobacco use prevalence is disproportionately high among the behavioral health population. A research study entitled Promoting smoke-free environments and tobacco cessation in residential treatment facilities for mental health and addictions, Oregon, 2010, surveyed a wide range of residential treatment facilities with interesting results and implications for policy change. The study can be found here:
http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2012/11_0080.htm
v The Community Preventive Services Task Force is an independent, nonfederal body of public health and prevention experts, whose members are appointed by the Director of CDC. In December 2011, the Task Force made this determination:
The Task Force recommends mobile phone-based interventions for tobacco cessation based on sufficient evidence of effectiveness in increasing tobacco use abstinence among people interested in quitting. Evidence was considered sufficient based on findings from six studies in which mobile phone-based interventions were implemented alone or in combination with Internet-based interventions.
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/cessation/mobilephone.html
v Doctors Should Offer to Help All Smokers to Quit, Study Suggests:
http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/research/doctors-should-offer-to-help-all-smokers-to-quit-study-suggests?utm_source=Join+Together+Daily&utm_campaign=34b05f0fc2- JT_Daily_News_Doctors_Should_Offer&utm_medium=email