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CESSATION FRONTLINE: NOVEMBER 2012
Welcome to the Cessation Frontline, from the Department of Defense/TRICARE® Quit Tobacco
— Make Everyone Proud campaign. Cessation Frontline is an easy way for partners promoting tobacco cessation and our campaign to stay informed about campaign marketing efforts, new features on ucanquit2.org, and emerging trends in tobacco-related news.
Monthly Focus The 2012 Great American Smokeout
The 2012 Great American Smokeout (GASO) is almost here. We appreciate your dedication and hard work in planning and executing GASO events at your installation. Here’s wishing you great success in getting U.S. Service members, Veterans, retirees, and their families to “Walk away for a day” by being smoke-free on November 17. We hope you have stocked up for GASO from the wide variety of Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud materials available online. If not, you can still download our GASO promotional materials—posters, banners, and print advertisements.
Campaign Promotion GASO is once a year, but tobacco cessation happens year round.
Quit Tobacco— Make Everyone Proud has a variety of materials available to help you promote tobacco cessation. Stress balls, branded ballpoint pens, posters, and wallet cards are all in stock and available to order online in limited quantities.
Feature Update Join Us for GASO on Facebook
Find us on Facebook, and get involved with GASO by joining our online event. You also can use our messages to build support for your installation’s GASO events and create an online community to support and encourage those you are helping to quit tobacco.
Show and Tell Us About Your GASO Activities
We would like to hear about how you observed GASO on your installation along with feedback on how you used our GASO materials and how they were received. Please send an email to info@ucanquit2.org with a short description and photos. And by taking a minute to post a quit blog entry, you can share your GASO successes with everyone.
See Our New Holiday Materials
GASO will see many service members walking away from tobacco for a day. Yet the fast-approaching holiday season will present new challenges to staying tobacco free. After GASO, look for our downloadable flier and article listing ten tactics for resisting tobacco urges during holiday celebrations.
> TOBACCO CESSATION CLASSES are ongoing and are offered the first Tuesday of every month (unless otherwise noted). This 3-Class series is from 1130-1230 on Tuesdays in the Semper Fit Center. Class topics will help arm you with the tools you need to quit and stay quit. Free pharmaceutical agents will be provided. The class is available to active duty, family members, retirees, and MCCS employees. Sign up online or next two months (25 max per class) or call Health Promotions at (858) 577-1331. For more information, click here.
> NAVY AND MARINE CORPS TOBACCO POLICY The purpose of this SECNAV Instruction, is to provide policy and program guidance, for the control and reduction of tobacco use within the Department of the Navy (DON). This instruction is a complete revision and should be reviewed in its entirety. To download this instruction, click here.
> BLACK, AND MILD CIGARS NOT SAFE and is just one of the latest smoking trends in the United States.
Many people, especially our young people, are smoking these "little cigars" and inhaling the smoke. Many of our sailors, family members and retirees are smoking Black and Mild's. I am seeing an increase in this trend.
Many believe they are safe and contain no nicotine or other toxic substances. PLEASE read and pass on to all personnel the attached report from the Baltimore, Maryland Health Department from October 2007, or for more information, you can go to http://www.baltimorehealth.org
Treating a Black and Mild cigar smoker can be complex and difficult to say the least. One Black and Mild cigar can have as much nicotine as FIVE packs of REGULAR cigarettes. Cigars (of any type) emit 30x the amount of Carbon Monoxide (the heart killer) then one cigarette. Using Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) will usually require high-dosing, in order to detoxify these types of smokers. Other medication, i.e., Bupropion and/or Chantix, can be used as well if patients meet the use criteria and inclusions. But, as with any drug addiction most important is lifestyle change.
If you have any questions please contact me at anytime.
Respectfully,
Danny Woodard, MA CTTS
Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist
Wellness Center
Naval Air Station Jacksonville
904-542-2836
OTHER TOBACCO CESSATION WEB SITES
http://www.smokefree.gov
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco
For more information on Health Promotion Education Information, click here for a (5.8 MBs) pdf.
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