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NAQC is pleased to support the Tips From Former Smokers® Campaign (Tips®). Tips featured the stories of more than 40 brave individuals from diverse backgrounds living with serious long-term health effects from smoking and secondhand smoke exposure. The campaign also shared stories of family members impacted by their loved one’s smoking-related illness. The message is urgent: Now is the time to quit smoking, and free help is available.
Connections is our monthly e-newsletter designed to keep NAQC members and partners connected to timely information about tobacco control, research, and upcoming events in the quitline community.
A special communication designed to provide detailed and important information about NAQC and/or partner activities that may impact quitline operations and services.
In March 2012, the British Medical Journal published an article by Ferguson et al. that concludes, “In England, where support for smoking cessation (i.e., counseling and NRT) is available to all smokers either free or at relatively low cost, adding additional proactive telephone counseling or an offer of free nicotine replacement therapy to usual quitline care did not affect smoking cessation rates. On the basis of this study, providing these through a quitline is not recommended.” Effect of offering different levels of support and free nicotine replacement therapy via an English national telephone quitline: randomised controlled trial has attracted much attention and has raised questions about the wisdom of providing NRT as part of quitline services. In response to such questions, the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) convened a webinar (http://www.naquitline.org/?page=CallInformation) to consider the implications of the study for quitlines in North America
