Communiqué #24
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New York State Holds First Leadership Academy for Wellness and Smoking Cessation

 

Increased NRT in Recovery Treatment Facilities: SAMHSA Report 

 

The Slate.com Creates Interactive Smoking Prevalence Map

  

Public Comments Solicited for Proposed FDA Warnings

 

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 NYSNew York State Holds First Leadership Academy for Wellness and Smoking Cessation

 

SAMHSA and the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center would like to congratulate all the participants who attended the New York Leadership Academy for Wellness and Smoking Cessation Summit on November 15th. Over 30 partners from a wide variety of backgrounds, including addiction professionals, mental health providers, state agencies, consumers, and tobacco prevention experts came together to create an action plan to lower the smoking prevalence rate among people with behavioral health disorders in New York State.

 

Currently in New York State, 30% of people with serious mental illnesses smoke and 50% of people with mental illness and substance use disorders smoke. The goal of the summit partners is to reduce smoking prevalence by 10% in each of these groups by 2015.

 

The summit partners identified 5 overarching strategies to reach this goal:

 

  1. Improved Tobacco Cessation through Policy, Licensing, and Regulation

  2. Peer to Peer Intervention

  3. Expanded State Cessation Benefits
  4. Training for Medical Providers, Other Providers, Staff and PeersNYS OMH
  5. Data Mining and Development 

 

Follow this link to New York State's Office of Mental Health newsletter for more information about the summit: http://www.omh.ny.gov/omhweb/resources/newsltr/2010/nov/#6.

 

New York is the first of five states to hold Leadership Academies.  The New York State summit is a model for future collaborations bridging public health and behavioral health. For more information about the Academies, contact Reason Reyes rreyes@medicine.ucsf.edu.

 

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NRTIncreased NRT in Recovery Treatment Facilities: SAMHSA Report

 

SAMHSA has released a new Spotlight report on the percentage of substance abuse treatment facilities offering nicotine replacement therapy to clients gradually increased by about 6 percentage points from 2006 to 2009. The report showed that in 2009, 2,613 (19%) of 13,513 facilities surveyed were offering nicotine replacement therapy up from 13% in 2006.

 

The full report is available online at http://oas.samhsa.gov/spotlight/Spotlight010Nicotine.pdf.

 

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SlateThe Slate.com Creates Interactive Smoking Prevalence Map

 

A new, interactive map put together by the online magazine Slate.com shows smoking prevalence by state, county, age group, and distinguishes between daily smoking and people who smoke sometimes. The map is color coded according to the smoking rates of various demographic segments.

 

Here's the link to the interactive map based on 2009 BRFSS data from the CDC:

http://labs.slate.com/articles/cigarette-map/.Slate CDC

 

 

 

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FDAPublic Comments Solicited for Proposed FDA Warnings 

 

A new, comprehensive tobacco strategy unveiled by HHS will require all cigarette packs sold in the US to display graphic images and written warnings about the health consequences of smoking. The deadline for submitting public comments is January 11, 2011.

 

Follow this link to comment on the 36 proposed images: Go to www.regulations.gov and insert docket number FDA-2010-N-0568 into the "search" box and follow the prompts.

  

To view the warning labels, go to: www.flickr.com/photos/fdaphotos/collections/72157625232230587/

 

The congressionally mandated health warnings and accompanying graphic images will rotate on all cigarette packaging and in advertisements by September 22, 2012. Here are a few of the new warnings that must appear on cigarette advertisements and packaging:

 

  • WARNING: Tobacco smoke can harm your children
  • WARNING: Cigarettes cause strokes and heart disease
  • WARNING: Tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in nonsmokers

 

Once in place, each warning will accompany a color image, and they'll be splashed over 50% of the front and rear panels of all cigarette packages and at least 20% of each print ad.

  

More resources on the new HHS tobacco strategy:  FDA

Resource Highlights

RWJF Tobacco Map

For the first time, policymakers and advocates have access to a nationwide picture of continuing state efforts on key tobacco control policies. The RWJF Tobacco Map uses data from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights and is updated as new information becomes available.

 

A New Way to Think About Quitting
About re-learning life without cigarettes, the free Become an EX plan is based on personal experiences from ex-smokers, as well as the latest scientific research from the experts at Mayo Clinic.

 

1-800-QUIT-NOW wallet card
Available through the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, the card is similar in size and feel to a credit card and offers motivational language urging smokers to call the nation's free, effective, tobacco cessation counseling lines. quite now

 

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Please continue to send us your updates (i.e. newsletter articles, provider trainings, presentations, etc.)
We will collect all the information, share with all partners, and post updates on the SCLC website.

Questions or comments on the Communiqué:
Contact Margaret Meriwether