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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Tips From Former Smokers® campaign

About this resource:

Non-Systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: September 2022

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup, Cancer Workgroup

This webpage provides information about the Tips from Former Smokers campaign. The campaign profiles people from different backgrounds living with serious, long-term health effects from smoking and secondhand smoke exposure — and the toll on their family members. The campaign webpage features:

  • Science-based tools and materials that partners, such as health care providers, faith-based organizations, and public health professionals, can use to help people quit smoking 
  • Resources like images, print ads, videos, and social media content
  • An overview of the campaign
  • Social media channels for the campaign
  • Information on how smoking and secondhand smoke affects certain groups
  • Press releases and media guidance for journalists, bloggers, and members of the press
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Objectives related to this resource (16)

Reduce current tobacco use in adults — TU‑01
Improving
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adults — TU‑02
LHI label
Improving
Reduce current tobacco use in adolescents — TU‑04
LHI label
Getting worse
Reduce current e-cigarette use in adolescents — TU‑05
Little or no detectable change
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adolescents — TU‑06
Target met or exceeded
Reduce current cigar smoking in adolescents — TU‑07
Improving
Reduce current use of flavored tobacco products in adolescents who use tobacco — TU‑09
Baseline only
Eliminate cigarette smoking initiation in adolescents and young adults — TU‑10
Improving
Increase past-year attempts to quit smoking in adults — TU‑11
Little or no detectable change
Increase use of smoking cessation counseling and medication in adults who smoke — TU‑13
Baseline only
Increase successful quit attempts in adults who smoke — TU‑14
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who don't smoke but are exposed to secondhand smoke — TU‑19
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of adolescents exposed to tobacco marketing — TU‑22
Little or no detectable change
Reduce current use of smokeless tobacco products among adolescents — TU‑08
Target met or exceeded
Reduce current cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking in adults — TU‑03
Improving
Reduce the lung cancer death rate — C‑02
Improving

Suggested Citation

1.

Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2022). Tips from Former Smokers Campaign. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/index.html.