Monograph 6: Community-Based Interventions for Smokers: The COMMIT Field Experience
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Table of Contents:
- Dedication (32 kb)
- Foreword (64 kb)
- Acknowledgments (160 kb)
- Contents (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
Background for a Comprehensive Community-Based Trial for Smoking Control (96 kb)
- Individual Orientations to Tobacco Control
- Public Health Model of Tobacco Control
- Past Community-Based Studies of Tobacco Control
- Lessons From Previous Studies
Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation: Description and Evaluation Plan (128 kb)
- Trial Communities
- Trial Timeline
- Overall Evaluation Plan
- Outcome Evaluation
- Impact Evaluation
- Process Evaluation
- Economic Evaluation
Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation: Development of the Intervention (224 kb)
- Introduction
- Intervention Goals and Objectives
- Intervention Areas
- Special Considerations of the Intervention Design
Mobilizing the COMMIT Communities for Smoking Control (256 kb)
- Adaptations for Research Purposes
- Steps in Mobilizing Communities
- Community Analysis
- Mobilization Experiences Across Communities
- What Could Have Been Done Differently?
Activities To Involve the Smoking Public in Tobacco Control in COMMIT (256 kb)
- Rationale and Process Objectives
- Campaigns
- Magnet Events
- Media Advocacy
- What Could Have Been Done Differently?
Changing Public Policy Around Tobacco Control in the COMMIT Communities (192 kb)
- Rationale
- Changing Policies
- Challenges to Policy Changes
- What Could Have Been Done Differently?
- Generic Lessons
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
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
Promoting Community Tobacco Control Through Worksites (224 kb)
- Goals, Activities, and Process Objectives
- Planning Worksite Interventions
- Intervention Activities and Their Implementation
- Delivering the Intervention to the Community
- Lessons Learned
Involving Diverse Community Organizations in Tobacco Control Activities (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
Promoting Communitywide Tobacco Control Activities by Involving Schools (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
Involving Youth in Awareness of, Promotion of, and Political Activities for Tobacco Control (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
What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go From Here? (128 kb)
- Major Lessons Learned
- Implications of COMMIT Results on Lessons Learned
- Future Directions for Community Tobacco Control

