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Help your patients and employees quit tobacco use. 
NC Prevention Partners has started its latest project to help your patients and employees quit tobacco. To get started in setting up a comprehensive cessation system at your hospital, please contact Melva Fager Okun: (919) 969-7022, x 202 or melva@ncpreventionpartners.org.
And congratulations to Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital for going 100% tobacco free
campus wide this month! Now 117 NC hospitals have the policy in place!
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Melva Fager Okun talks to Winston-Salem Journal about unsafe smokeless tobacco
Dr. Okun, a senior health promotion manager with NC Prevention Partners, tells Richard Craver of the W-S Journal that there is no safe tobacco product. Read the full story.
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Eight NC hospitals have already achieved "red apple" healthy food status
 NC Prevention Partners is proud to announce that 8 hospitals in the state have achieved "red apple" status on the new healthy food project. This means they are helping ensure healthy food is more available, visible and affordable and for their employees and visitors. Congratulations to: Carolinas Medical Center, FirstHealth - Moore Regional Campus, Hugh Chatham Hospital, Mission Hospitals, Park Ridge Hospital, Pitt County Memorial, UNC Hospitals, and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center!
NCPP launched the program in September and will be meeting with hospitals across the state over the next two years. Check out the latest progress here, and contact Nicholas Sullivan (nicholas@ncpreventionpartners.org) to set up a meeting today!
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Upcoming web-based tobacco cessation trainings
Several web-based tobacco cessation trainings are coming up. Here are two to check out:
1. Northwest AHEC Counseling for Change: An Online Tobacco Cessation Course.
2. Washington State and the Tobacco Cessation Resource Center (Free & Clear) have developed a training to help health care
providers incorporate patient cessation counseling into their
daily practice. Thursday, Nov. 20, 2:00PM EST.
Please tell us about about any great cessation trainings!
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Important tobacco study shows health care providers not aware of cessation guidelines
HealthDay recently reported, "Few doctors or other healthcare providers have enough smoking
cessation training to help their patients quit smoking," according to a
study presented at the American College of Chest Physicians annual meeting.
The study was conducted by North Shore-Long Island Jewish
Health System Center for Tobacco Control in Great Neck, N.Y. Of nearly 600 healthcare providers surveyed, the
researchers "found that 87...to 93 percent of doctors and other healthcare
workers receive less than five hours of training on tobacco dependence, and
less than six percent know the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) treatment guidelines for tobacco dependence, including the signs of
nicotine withdrawal."
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