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Center for Disease Control and Prevention: "Tips from Former Smokers"

Posted on 8/13/2014 by Crafton Dental

Recently, the Center for Disease Control and Prevision released a brand new campaign, "Tips from Former Smokers".

The Burden of Tobacco Use
Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States, killing more than 480,000 Americans each year. Smoking causes immediate damage to your body, which can lead to long-term health problems. For every smoking-related death, at least 30 Americans live with a smoking-related illness. The only proven strategy to protect yourself from harm is to never smoke, and if you do smoke or use tobacco products, to quit.

Real People, Real Stories
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the first-ever paid national tobacco education campaign - Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) in March 2012. TheTips campaign, which profiles real people - not actors - who are living with serious long-term health effects from smoking and secondhand smoke exposure, has continued through 2013 and 2014.

Since its launch, the Tips campaign has featured compelling stories of former smokers living with smoking-related diseases and disabilities and the toll that smoking-related illnesses have taken on them. The campaign has also featured nonsmokers who have experienced life-threatening episodes as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke.

Tips ads focus on health issues caused by smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, including:

•	Cancer (lung, throat, head and neck)
•	Heart disease
•	Stroke
•	Asthma
•	Diabetes
•	Buerger’s disease
•	COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
•	Gum disease
•	Preterm birth
•	Smoking and HIV

The Tips campaign engages doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and many other health care providers so they can encourage their smoking patients to quit for good.

Tips Campaign Goals

•	Build public awareness of the immediate health damage caused by smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke.
•	Encourage smokers to quit and make free help available.
•	Encourage smokers not to smoke around others and nonsmokers to protect themselves and their families from exposure to secondhand smoke.

Tips Campaign Key Messages

•	Smoking causes immediate damage to your body, which can lead to long-term health problems.
•	For every smoking-related death, at least 30 Americans live with a smoking-related illness.
•	Now is the time to quit smoking, and if you want help, free assistance is available.

Tips Campaign Results to Date
In September 2013, The Lancet medical journal published an article about the effects of the 2012 Tips campaign, reporting that:

•	The Tips campaign motivated 1.6 million smokers to make a quit attempt.
•	More than 100,000 U.S. smokers will remain quit as a result of the 2012 campaign.
•	An estimated 6 million nonsmokers talked with friends and family about the dangers of smoking.
•	Call volume to the 1-800-QUIT-NOW quitline and visits to the Tips Web site increase dramatically during each campaign. In 2013, the average weekly number of calls increased by 75%, and the number of Web site visitors increased 38-fold.

Tips Campaign Resources
Free help is available for those who want to quit. Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW or explore I'm Ready to Quit. Spanish speakers can call 1-855-DEJELO-YA or explore Estoy listo para dejar de fumar!

Learn more about the health damage smoking causes - and help spread the word with Tipsmaterials in English or Spanish found at Campaign Resources and Recursos de la campana.

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/about/

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