Podcasts

ReachMD features Thirdhand Smoke: Key Concerns for Infants and Children
Dr. Jonathan Winickoff, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium, talks with host Dr. Jennifer Shu about how these chemicals, newly named thirdhand smoke, can affect our younger patients in particular.

Additional Resources

American Academy of Pediatrics
Smoking and exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) among pregnant women cause low-birth weight babies, preterm delivery, perinatal deaths, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

AAP Plain Language Pediatrics Health Literacy Resources:

• Secondhand Smoke (English)
• Secondhand Smoke (Spanish)
• Teens and Tobacco (English)
• Teens and Tobacco (Spanish)

AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. To help inform kids and adults about how smoking affects children, NFL Hall of Famer, Darrell Green (formerly with the Washington Redskins) candidly talked with a group of engaged third-grade kids about tobacco use. Click here to watch the four 30-second Public Service Announcments (PSA).

1-800-Quit-Now
1-800-QUIT-NOW is the toll-free national telephone counseling service to help people stop smoking or quit other forms of tobacco use.


Become an EX This free Quit Plan sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation utilizes a systematic program to help prepare a customized quitting plan for each person.


Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a leader in the fight to reduce tobacco use and its devastating consequences in the United States and around the world. By changing public attitudes and public policies on tobacco, we strive to prevent kids from smoking, help smokers quit and protect everyone from secondhand smoke.


Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Statistics on youth smoking.

FamilyDoctor.org
This Web site is operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), a national medical organizations representing more than 93,700 family physicians, family practice residents and medical students. All of the information on this site has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the AAFP.

Helping Young Smokers Quit
The Helping Young Smokers Quit initiative works to fill a gap in knowledge about the numbers and distribution of youth cessation programs, as well as the types of treatment approaches and program components that are currently offered across the U.S.

I Love My Smoke Free Childhood
PSA by the Global Cancer Control Community


National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
As the lead Federal Agency for research on substance abuse and addiction, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a FREE education video on the effects and risks associated with nicotine use among teens. NIDA scientists Gaya Dowling, Ph.D. and Redonna Chandler, Ph.D. educate youth about the physiological affects of nicotine use, especially the long-term consequences that nicotine use has on the brain. This video is part of a new video-education series provided by NIDA.


No Smoking Room
The No Smoking Room is a safe place to help you live smoke-free. It started with a group of grown ups concerned by the number of girls, and women, who smoke. They know that girls are influenced to smoke by many media and social pressures. They have also learned how the internet plays a big part of young people’s lives. They decided to reach out to a community of young girls across North America who could tell them how to share their message with young girls using the internet.


Smoke Free Homes
Smoke Free Homes is a comprehensive, national effort to train pediatric clinicians in brief, effective methods to reduce children's secondhand smoke exposure through parental smoking cessation and harm reduction.


The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Tobacco Industry Prevention Ads Aimed at Teens Have No Effect on Youth Smoking.  Study finds that some tobacco industry sponsored prevention ads targeted at parents may increase likelihood of teen smoking.


The Truth Campaign
The truth® campaign is the largest national youth-focused anti-tobacco education campaign ever. It is designed to engage teens by exposing Big Tobacco's marketing and manufacturing practices, as well as highlighting the toll of tobacco in relevant and innovative ways. Watch the Truth Campaign videos here.

Treatobacco.net
Treatobacco.net is for those working on the treatment of tobacco dependence throughout the world. It presents authoritative evidence-based information about the treatment of tobacco dependence, under five headings: Demographics and Health Effects, Efficacy, Health Economics, Policy, Safety.