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NTCC Priorities

• 1. Increase consumer demand for evidence-based tobacco cessation treatments and services
• 2. Link tobacco control public policy changes to increase cessation and treatment use and demand
• 3. Promote the inclusion and use of tobacco control and cessation content in electronic health records (EHRs)
• 4. Increase national, state and local longitudinal surveillance of tobacco-use cessation, including quitting motivation and behaviors, treatment beliefs and use, services, and policies
• 5. Expand access to proven, effective treatments for tobacco addiction
• 6. Support an expanded research agenda to achieve advances in the reach, effectiveness and adoption of tobacco cessation interventions across both individuals and populations
• 7. Launch an ongoing, extensive, national paid media campaign on cessation to help Americans quit using tobacco
• 8. Support the increase in the federal and state excise tax on tobacco to expand assistance for tobacco users who want to quit
• 9. Build capacity for quitlines in order to provide universal access to evidence-based counseling and medications for tobacco cessation

National Priority #4

Increase national, state and local longitudinal surveillance of tobacco-use cessation, including quitting motivation and behaviors, treatment beliefs and use, services, and policies

In the United States, tobacco use is monitored via a series of annual cross-sectional surveys. These surveys inform the field about usage trends over time and about patterns of use among various demographic sub-groups of the populations. However, these surveys do not offer much in terms of the natural history of quitting among individuals, how smokers quit, or about the treatments that they try and find helpful. Longitudinal studies are needed to systematically track quitting efforts, methods and successes to better understand how people quit. This data can be used to better understand individual and policy level factors as well as how broader tobacco control programming affects quit attempts and to better help people quit.

NTCC Activities for 2009-2010

To help support an increase in national, state and local longitudinal surveillance of tobacco-use cessation, NTCC will:

• Convene longitudinal surveillance experts by conference call to develop goals and next steps for this area, including Legacy and their work on a longitudinal study of EX

Partner Activities

NTCC partners are currently conducting many activities related to this priority. For a list of these NTCC partner activities, click here.