Monograph 6: Community-Based Interventions for Smokers: The COMMIT Field Experience

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Table of Contents:

• Dedication (PDF, 32 KB)
• Foreword (PDF, 64 KB)
• Acknowledgments (PDF, 160 KB)
• Contents (PDF, 128 KB)
  
  
• Chapter 1
  Smoking Control and the COMMIT Experience Summary and Overview (160 KB)
  • Trends in the Magnitude of Smoking as a Public Health Problem
  • Activities of the Tobacco Industry
  • COMMIT and the Evolution of the National Cancer Institute's Smoking and Tobacco Control Program
  • Purpose of This Monograph
  • COMMIT Intervention Materials
    
    
• Chapter 2
  Background for a Comprehensive Community-Based Trial for Smoking Control (PDF, 96 KB)
  • Individual Orientations to Tobacco Control
  • Public Health Model of Tobacco Control
  • Past Community-Based Studies of Tobacco Control
  • Lessons From Previous Studies
    
    
• Chapter 3
  Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation: Description and Evaluation Plan (PDF, 128 KB)
  • Trial Communities
  • Trial Timeline
  • Overall Evaluation Plan
  • Outcome Evaluation
  • Impact Evaluation
  • Process Evaluation
  • Economic Evaluation
    
    
• Chapter 4
  Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation: Development of the Intervention (PDF, 224 KB)
  • Introduction
  • Intervention Goals and Objectives
  • Intervention Areas
  • Special Considerations of the Intervention Design
    
    
• Chapter 5
  Mobilizing the COMMIT Communities for Smoking Control (PDF, 256 KB)
  • Adaptations for Research Purposes
  • Steps in Mobilizing Communities
  • Community Analysis
  • Mobilization Experiences Across Communities
  • What Could Have Been Done Differently?
    
    
• Chapter 6
  Activities To Involve the Smoking Public in Tobacco Control in COMMIT (PDF, 256 KB)
  • Rationale and Process Objectives
  • Campaigns
  • Magnet Events
  • Media Advocacy
  • What Could Have Been Done Differently?
    
    
• Chapter 7
  Changing Public Policy Around Tobacco Control in the COMMIT Communities (PDF, 192 KB)
  • Rationale
  • Changing Policies
  • Challenges to Policy Changes
  • What Could Have Been Done Differently?
  • Generic Lessons
    
    
• Chapter 8
  Activities To Enhance the Use of Cessation Resources in COMMIT (160 KB)
  • Cessation Resources Activities and Process Objectives
  • Developing and Distributing a Cessation Resources Guide
  • Recruiting Heavy Smokers Into a Network
  • Distributing a Semiannual Newsletter
  • Special Recruitment and Intervention Activities
    
    
• Chapter 9
  Activities To Promote Health Care Providers as Participants in Community-Based Tobacco Control (192 KB)
  • Rationale
  • Challenges and Barriers
  • Goals and Process Objectives for Health Care Providers
  • Intervention Activities
  • What Happened: Successful Components and Challenges
  • The Future
    
    
• Chapter 10
  Promoting Community Tobacco Control Through Worksites (PDF, 224 KB)
  • Goals, Activities, and Process Objectives
  • Planning Worksite Interventions
  • Intervention Activities and Their Implementation
  • Delivering the Intervention to the Community
  • Lessons Learned
    
    
• Chapter 11
  Involving Diverse Community Organizations in Tobacco Control Activities (PDF, 320 KB)
• The Rationale for Involving Community Organizations
• Other Organizations in COMMIT
• Successful Efforts With Community Organizations
• Challenges Encountered With Community Organizations
• Experiences With Other Organizations Across the Communities
• Rethinking How To Work With Community Organizations
  
  
• Chapter 12
  Promoting Communitywide Tobacco Control Activities by Involving Schools (PDF, 192 KB)
  • Intervention Activities and Process Objectives for Schools
  • Implementing School-Based Interventions
  • Patterns of School-Based Interventions
  • Lessons Learned From COMMIT School-Based Activities
    
    
• Chapter 13
  Involving Youth in Awareness of, Promotion of, and Political Activities for Tobacco Control (PDF, 192 KB)
  • Goals, Activities, and Process Objectives For Youth
  • Involving Youth in Communitywide Campaigns and Intervention Activities
  • Monitoring and Promoting Enforcement of Regulations on Youth Access to Tobacco
  • Successful Activities
  • Enlisting Youth in Communitywide Campaigns
  • Magnet Events
  • Monitoring and Enforcing Tobacco Access
  • Challenges
  • Lessons Learned
    
    
• Chapter 14
  What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go From Here? (PDF, 128 KB)
  • Major Lessons Learned
  • Implications of COMMIT Results on Lessons Learned
  • Future Directions for Community Tobacco Control