Patient Education videos

Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center has formatted a patient education video 'Stop Smoking for Good' into three You Tube videos: 1. Help to Stop Smoking; 2. I'm So Happy I Stopped Smoking; 3. Stopping Smoking: Why is it so Hard".
Links are attached. Please feel free to use these as you see fit for patients and/or other health professionals. I would be interested in any feedback you receive regarding the videos - such as which is most useful, for who, and why. Please feel free to contact me directly at burke.michael1@mayo.edu with any feedback.
Help to Stop Smoking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDfvaSKGVxk
I'm so Happy I Stopped Smoking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcF8hkpHueM&feature=related
Stopping Smoking: Why is it so Hard? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ewwzazHfq4
Each of the videos does mention our Residential Treatment Program and if anyone wants more information on those you can go to our web site http://ndc.mayo.edu/ and follow the link for the Treatment Programs.

Americans for non smokers rights

Air Filtration"? That's Just Tobacco Companies Blowing Smoke Again. To read more click here:
http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=15

New Study - Smoking bans reduce heart attacks

A new study conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests smoking bans can significantly reduce hospitalization rates for heart attacks, Reuters reports.
http://www.rwjf.org/publichealth/digest.jsp?id=9255&c=EMC-ND141
Study Finds Smoke-Free Policy Reduced Heart Attack Hospitalizations in Colorado City

Oregon expands smoking ban

Oregon Expands Smoking Ban to Include Bars, Taverns
On January 1, Oregon became the 21st U.S. state to expand a workplace smoking ban to include restaurants, bars and taverns, the Associated Press reports.

Tobacco Use

Cigarette Sales Decreasing -- but Other Tobacco Product Popularity Increasing
Cigarette smoking and sales have been on the decline over the last decade in the United States -- but health-care providers and other concerned citizens shouldn't be too quick to celebrate, says a study from the Harvard School of Public Health. According to the research, 30 percent of the drop in cigarette sales may be offset by the sale of other tobacco products, including snuff, cigars, and roll-your-own products. The study -- the first to examine concurrent cigarette and other tobacco product sales -- appears in the June 11, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Read the full article at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2008-releases/decline-in-cigarette-smoking-in-offset-by-use-of-other-tobacco-products.html

Two Questions Can ID Youth At Risk of Smoking

Researchers say youth at risk of becoming smokers can be identified by asking two simple questions: "Would it be easy for you to get a cigarette?" and "Do you have friends who smoke?"
To read more go to:
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/two-questions-can-id-youth-at.html

Massachusetts Raises Cigarette Tax to Help Fund Health Care Law

Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.) signed a bill that raises the state's cigarette tax by $1, a move that is expected to bring in $174 million in revenues "to help cover the cost of the state's landmark health care law," reports the Associated Press.
http://www.rwjf.org/coverage/digest.jsp?id=8156&c=EMC-ND132

Iowa Smoking Ban Takes Effect

The Iowa Department of Health began enforcing a new law that prohibits smoking in restaurants, bars, workplaces and other public areas statewide, the Britt News-Tribune reports.

http://www.rwjf.org/publichealth/digest.jsp?id=8115&c=EMC-ND141

Regional Meetings for Virginian's for a Healthy Future

Virginians for a Healthy Future Coalition will be hosting a series of regional meetings throughout the Commonwealth in June. Below please find a list of the dates and locations of the meetings.

We encourage anyone interested in making Virginia's public places smoke free to come to the meeting in your area. Please join us to learn more about our campaign plans but also to help us to

Virginia Beach
Thursday, June 19th
10:00 am
Sentara Princess Anne – Community Room Suite 210
1925 Glenn Mitchell Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23456

At the meetings we will discuss:
Our grassroots and legislative strategies to advocate for smoke free legislation
How we can mobilize Virginians to contact their legislators
What tactics you think will work in your community

If you plan to attend the meeting – please RSVP to Nicole Pugar, Coalition Organizer at (804) 225-5828 or nicole@vfhf.org by Monday, June 16. Please visit our website at http://www.healthyvanow.org/ for more information about the Smoke Free Virginia Now campaign.

American Lung Association Update

Big Tobacco's Guinea Pigs: How an Unregulated Industry Experiments on America's Kids and Consumers - This report details how tobacco companies manipulate their products to recruit new youth users, create and sustain addiction, and discourages users from quitting

Regional Collaborative Meeting of Tobacco-Free Initiatives

Dear CINCH Members and Community Partners,

Please plan to join CINCH’s Allies Against Asthma’s workgroup, the Virginia Beach Tobacco-free Coalition, the Chesapeake Coalition and other community partners on Monday, January 14, 2008** from 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. in E.V. Williams Hall at Eastern Virginia Medical School to discuss and coordinate efforts on local tobacco-free initiatives. The attached flyer will provide you with more information on this important meeting. If you need driving directions to the meeting location, please let me know.

If you plan to attend it is important that you RSVP to CINCH@evms.edu ensure we have enough refreshments.

**Reminder to AAA Workgroup Members – this meeting takes the place of the January AAA workgroup meeting originally scheduled for 1/21/08.