National Summit on Smokeless Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
March 4, 5 and 6, 2008
Renaissance and Cox Convention Centers (confirmed)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Conference goals:
- Providing the foundation for interventions to prevent and reduce smokeless tobacco use: What is known.
- Documenting what additional research and evaluation is needed for programs to reduce smokeless tobacco use: What needs to be known.
- Providing a platform for ongoing innovation in community-based practice and cessation systems to reduce the use of smokeless tobacco and eliminate tobacco industry influences: What can be done.
- Facilitating the creation of new partnerships and strengthening existing relationships: What to do next.
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Abstract Program Areas:
Communication and Counter-Marketing
Submissions will discuss communication tactics to reach specific or disparate populations, describe social marketing interventions to reduce smokeless tobacco use, particularly media-based programs to counter smokeless tobacco advertising, facilitate the organization of workgroups to address smokeless tobacco control, and utilizing the media and community networks to promote smokeless tobacco control.
Community Dimensions of Practice
Submissions will address coordinating community involvement in smokeless tobacco control building community partnerships, community assets and available resources in smokeless tobacco control, collaboration of community partners to promote smokeless tobacco control, mobilizing community partners for leadership in smokeless tobacco control activities, state and/or local interventions to eliminate smokeless tobacco industry influences.
Cultural Competency
Submissions will discuss cultural, social and family influences that shape attitudes and beliefs related to smokeless tobacco, effectiveness of incorporating social context (i.e. culture, neighborhoods, and social networks) in interventions to prevent or reduce smokeless tobacco use, development of working partnerships with key stakeholders to address smokeless tobacco-caused disparities, working in specific populations with a high susceptibility to smokeless tobacco use and differences in traditional and industry-produced smokeless tobacco products.
Cessation and Clinical Systems
Submissions will address clinical approaches to smokeless tobacco treatments to decrease the risk of cancer and other deadly diseases, and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration that foster critical areas for advancing the field of smokeless tobacco treatment and research.
Policy Development and Program Planning
Submissions will discuss collaboration to decide on course of action that would advance intended results involving local smokeless tobacco control indicators and social capital assets, describe how policy is incorporated into affected organizations’ plans, examine tobacco related information and data applicable to indicators and assets chosen by local community for interventions, explain the health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social, and/or political implications of smokeless tobacco control policy option(s) as relevant to local community efforts.
