Mark the Great American Smokeout by Registering for our Cessation Webinar

Although smoking rates among youth and adults had been declining for decades, national data shows that those declines are leveling off. Tobacco remains the leading cause of premature and preventable death in the country, causing 443,000 deaths each year and one-third of all cancer deaths. An estimated 4,000 youths try a cigarette for the first time each day, and 1,000 become "lifetime" smokers.

To assist coalitions who work on tobacco cessation or prevention issues, CADCA and its new partner, the University of California, San Francisco-based Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, is offering a free webinar called “Understanding Tobacco’s Toll,” from 3-4:30 p.m. EST Dec. 2. Register now!

Participants in our webinar will gain new tools to address tobacco policy and smoking cessation in their community, understand the role and effectiveness of “quit lines,” learn about available resources to help reduce smoking in your community, hear from a community coalition with “real world” success in the application of tobacco prevention strategies, and understand the impact of tobacco on the individual, the family and the community.

Coalitions wanting to assess how they compare to other states might want to check out the American Lung Association’s Helping Smokers Quit: State Cessation Coverage 2010 report. The new report provides an overview of smoking cessation services and treatments offered in each state by Medicaid, Medicare, state employee plans, “quit lines” and private insurance.

Just in time for today’s American Cancer Society’s 35th Great American Smokeout when smokers refrain from smoking for the entire day and often mark the date as the date they quit, CADCA urges you or someone you now who smokes to call SCLC’s national “quit line,” 1-800-QUIT-NOW, for help.