Center for Tobacco Cessation

Organizational Summary

What is the mission of your organization with respect to tobacco cessation?

The Center for Tobacco Cessation (CTC) is an organization focused solely on tobacco cessation issues. The CTC serves as a source of the best available science on cessation and helps smokers quit by partnering with business, healthcare, and community leaders to promote proven and effective tobacco cessation treatments and policies.

What types of products or services do you offer presently?

CTC produces toolkits, policy papers, fact sheets and other materials as related to technical assistance to states and partners on a variety of cessation related issues, aimed ultimately to influence the adoption and implementation of the recommendations of Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Practice Guideline and The Guide to community Preventive Service: Tobacco Use Prevention and Control by the public health, clinical, and business sectors. These can be found on the website at www.ctcinfo.org.

What are any current initiatives underway in your organization regarding tobacco cessation? What projects are you undertaking this year? What are you funding?

We are working on several projects including: targeted technical assistance and follow-up to our Medicaid toolkit; finalizing the full States' roundtable report for release; initializing roundtable meetings on the issue of consumer demand for cessation services; working to integrate cessation issues into other state issues campaigns such as increased excise tax and secondhand smoke restriction, specifically coverage of benefits and utilization of existing and expanded services, among others.

What projects/initiatives are you considering for next year? What would you like to become more involved in?

We are working to get more directly involved in secondhand smoke restriction successes as opportunities to further cessation goals. We are also working, at the federal level, to expand access to and coverage for tobacco cessation services under various programs.

Who are the people in your organization that are actively working on tobacco cessation?

All staff: Interim Director Bill Furmanski - Directs CTC and communications needs for the Center, Policy Manager Sara Hutchinson - Works at the state and federal level on cessation policy initiatives and projects, Project Coordinator Glenda Taylor.

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