2024 in Review: Celebrating Our Journey Together

Dear NAQC Community,

As we look ahead to 2025, the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) remains steadfast in its mission to maximize access, use, and effectiveness of quitlines. NAQC works to equip our members with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and achieve these goals. Before we start the new year, we would like to acknowledge what we have accomplished together in 2024.

We thank our major funder, CDC, for another five-year funding award which is focused on supporting quitline programs implementation of best practices around reach, quality and sustainability. To best guide and prioritize our work, we have reached out to all organizational members in the last quarter of 2024 to hear about your successes, challenges, and gain input on how NAQC can assist. We look forward to continuing these conversations in the coming year!

We would like to thank all of you for your commitment and active participation in the consortium, the Advisory Council (we are excited to welcome seven new members this year) which is instrumental in supporting our strategic goals and program objectives, and the Board of Directors who is working on organizational advancement and sustainability.

Below is a curated list of essential resources, website pages and features from the past year. These valuable assets are designed to aid you in your endeavors, keep you abreast of the latest developments in our field, and maximize your engagement with NAQC.

Best and Promising Practices

• Update on the Adoption of Priority Practices for State Quitlines

• Summary of Findings - Advancing Equity Through Quitlines: A Formative Examination to Inform the Quit

Partnership and Media Opportunities

• Highlights and Takeaways for the Quitline Community from the Surgeon General’s Report

• Optimizing the Interplay between Tobacco Product Regulation and Quitline Services: Opportunities for Innovation and Partnership

Lung Cancer Screening Training

• Project ENGAGE: Training TTSs on use of a Patient Decision Aid on Lung Cancer Screening

Research and Evaluation

• Findings from the 2023 Annual Survey

• Updated Quitline Call and Texting Portal Data

Quitline Sustainability

• Discussion Groups and Technical Assistance on Quitline Sustainability and Cost-Sharing Partnerships

• New Case Studies and Lessons Learned on State and Medicaid Partnerships

• Next Steps

Top Webpages and Web Features You Should Know About

• Improvements to the Map of State and Provincial Quitlines

• Peer-to-Peer Communications through the NEW ListServ and Membership Directory (members-only)

• Career Center

• Orientation/Refresher Sessions

In closing, as we work towards our shared vision of a tobacco-free future, NAQC remains dedicated to providing a forum for networking, problem-solving, and information exchange. Together, we will continue to advance key strategies and innovations nationwide, ensure continuous quality improvement and address tobacco-related disparities.

The NAQC Staff