Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to share final guide titled, Project CONNECT: An Implementation Guide for Quitlines, released as a result of NAQC’s partnership activities with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson), as well as quitline service providers, and quitline funders. Project CONNECT tested and further refined an existing video patient decision aid about LCS for quitline participants . Seven state quitlines and their state public health funders participated in Project CONNECT to evaluate the reach and impact and document the resources needed to implement and maintain the patient decision aid and other educational materials about LCS.

Over the course of the project, quitline service providers tested multiple methods for disseminating educational materials (verbal referral, text, email, mail, web, and social media) to engage quitline participants in learning about LCS. Based on the experiences of the states and service providers involved in Project CONNECT, an Implementation Guide for Quitlines was developed to help quitline funders and service providers learn what it takes to educate quitline participants about lung cancer screening.

We hope that you will find the guide to be useful - quitlines can play an important role in saving over 12,000 lives annually in the U.S. in expanding knowledge and awareness of this intervention among quitline participants.

Please let contact us with any questions at naqc@naquitline.org.

Regards,

NAQC Staff

This project was funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute® (PCORI®) Award (DI-2018C3-14825).