Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends mobile phone text messaging interventions for tobacco smoking cessation to increase the number of adults who successfully quit. Evidence shows improvements in cessation among adults when measured six or more…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends community mobilization combined with additional interventions such as stronger local laws directed at retailers, active enforcement of retailer sales laws, and retailer education with reinforcement on the basis of sufficient…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends comprehensive tobacco control programs based on strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure. Evidence indicates these programs reduce the prevalence of tobacco use among adults…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends worksite-based incentives and competitions when combined with additional interventions to support individual cessation efforts and reduce tobacco use among workers. The CPSTF has related findings for incentives and competitions when used…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends internet-based interventions to increase tobacco use cessation. Evidence shows interventions increase cessation among adults interested in quitting when measured six or more months following intervention. Intervention Internet-based tobacco cessation interventions…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends interventions that increase the unit price of tobacco products based on strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing tobacco use. Evidence is considered strong based on findings from studies demonstrating that…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends mass-reach health communication interventions based on strong evidence of effectiveness in: Decreasing the prevalence of tobacco use Increasing cessation and use of available services such as quitlines Decreasing initiation of…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends quitline interventions, particularly proactive quitlines (i.e. those that offer follow-up counseling calls), based on strong evidence of effectiveness in increasing tobacco cessation among clients interested in quitting. Evidence was considered…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends policies and programs to reduce tobacco users’ out-of-pocket costs for evidence-based cessation treatments based on strong evidence of effectiveness in increasing the number of tobacco users who quit. Evidence is…
Snapshot Summary of CPSTF Finding The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends smoke-free policies to reduce secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco use on the basis of strong evidence of effectiveness. Evidence is considered strong based on results from studies that showed effectiveness…