Support for Cessation Services: Community

Quitlines and Other Cessation Services

Encourage employer-based cessation programs through the use of insurance coverage and/or incentive programs
Cessation programs through the workplace are one option for cessation services that is not as wide-spread as it should be. Encourage employers to adopt this practice. Insurance coverage should be comprehensive and include counseling (individual and group) as well as medication (over the counter or phamacotherapy). An additional tactic that has proven successful is creating incentives to stop using tobacco products, which encourages employees to maintain tobacco-free lifestyles. Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS, or e-cigarettes), which are not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as an approved cessation device, should not be recommended to help smokers quit. 
Recommended by: 
• AAP policy statement– Clinical Practice Policy to Protect Children From Tobacco, Nicotine, and Tobacco Smoke 
• AAP policy statement– Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems 
• AAP policy statement– Public Policy to Protect Children From Tobacco, Nicotine, and Tobacco Smoke 
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)– Health Equity in Tobacco Prevention and Control 
• World Health Organization (WHO)– WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008: The MPOWER Package- Intervention O 
For more information: 
• AAP Julius B Richmond Center– Solving the Puzzle: A Guide to Pediatric Tobacco Control- Community: Employer Support for Work-Based Smoking Cessation 
• AAP Issue Brief– Tobacco Cessation and Treatment Programs 
• American Lung Association– Tobacco Cessation Coverage: Helping Smokers Quit 
• Georgetown University Health Policy Institute– Implementation of tobacco cessation coverage under the Affordable Care Act: Understanding how private health insurance policies cover tobacco cessation treatments 
Identify and support use of culturally relevant, community-based cessation interventions, including quitlines
Helpful cessation materials may include the state quitline, websites, text-to-quit programs, apps, and in-person programs. Combining cessation interventions greatly increases the effects of each of the program’s individual components. Policy discussions, youth programs, health communication interventions, and cessation interventions all serve to reinforce one another. Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS, or e-cigarettes), which are not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as an approved cessation device, should not be recommended to help smokers quit. 
Recommended by: 
• AAP policy statement– Clinical Practice Policy to Protect Children From Tobacco, Nicotine, and Tobacco Smoke 
• AAP policy statement– Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems 
• AAP policy statement– Public Policy to Protect Children From Tobacco, Nicotine, and Tobacco Smoke 
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)– Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs, 2014- pages 47-48 
• CDC– Health Equity in Tobacco Prevention and Control 
• Surgeon General report– The Health Consequences of Smoking— 50 Years of Progress, 2014- page 827 
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services– Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update- Clinical Practice Guidelines- pages 88-89 
• World Health Organization (WHO)– WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008: The MPOWER Package- Intervention O 
For more information: 
• AAP Julius B Richmond Center– Solving the Puzzle: A Guide to Pediatric Tobacco Control- Cessation 
• AAP Julius B Richmond Center– Tobacco Control and Specific Populations 
• AAP Issue Brief– Tobacco Cessation and Treatment Programs 
• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids– Kick Butts Day 
• Institute for Global Tobacco Control– The MPOWER framework and United Nations human rights treaties: An additional argument for the promotion of tobacco control goals 
• Smoking Cessation Leadership Center– Tobacco-Free Toolkit for Community Health Facilities 
• Truth Initiative– Become an Ex 
• Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative– Programs and Resources