Cessation Policy and Practice: Past, Present and Future

Audience:

This session targets a broad audience of tobacco control professionals, including stakeholders from state, local and national tobacco control programs or networks, tobacco treatment specialists, healthcare providers, and administrators of cessation programs.

Key Points:

Cessation represents one of our most powerful tools for reducing tobacco use prevalence and the associated burden of tobacco-related disease. This session will examine tobacco cessation policies and practices from the perspectives of the past, present, and future. Emphasis will be placed on the changing tobacco control landscape and emerging opportunities for promoting population-level cessation. Individual presentations will address the following topics:

• The important role of cessation policies and practice within tobacco control, with an emphasis on current challenges and new opportunities.
• Use of mobile- and internet-based technologies to support cessation (i.e., prompt quit attempts, aid self-quitting, increase treatment utilization and access), with an emphasis on current evidence and implementation recommendations.
• Integration of tobacco cessation interventions into health care delivery, with an emphasis on systems approaches and real-world impacts.
• An overview of cessation treatment financing, with an emphasis on recent developments in the healthcare policy landscape, and “doing more with less”

Educational Experience:

The session will consist of four presentations (60 min total) followed by a moderated panel discussion (30 min)

Benefits:

Attendees will be engaged in a discussion of how to leverage current cessation practices and policies to have maximum impact on population health. In addition, they will be apprised of recent developments that present new and exciting opportunities for promoting cessation.