New Community Guide Recommendation on Tobacco Cessation
Friday, January 13, 2012
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
The Community
Preventive Services Task Force is an independent, nonfederal body of public
health and prevention experts, whose members are appointed by the Director of
CDC. In December 2011, the Task Force made this determination:
The Task Force recommends mobile phone-based interventions for tobacco
cessation based on sufficient evidence of effectiveness in increasing tobacco
use abstinence among people interested in quitting. Evidence was considered
sufficient based on findings from six studies in which mobile phone-based
interventions were implemented alone or in combination with Internet-based
interventions.
Summary page- http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/cessation/mobilephone.html
Rationale statement- http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/cessation/RRmobilephone.html
This finding will be
published in an associated journal, but was released in advance of publication
so that it may be used immediately. Significantly, this is the first mobile
phone-based intervention recommended by the Task Force.
Source: Jason
M. M. Spangler, MD, MPH, FACPM, Chief
Medical Officer, Partnership for
Prevention
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