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.
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