• Cessation Planning & How-to Guides (15)
• LGBT-Specific Cessation Programs (18)

Cessation Planning & How-to Guides

• American Lung Association Cessation Report

  Quitting Smoking Saves Lives and Money:
  New American Lung Association Report Finds Most States
  Failing to Adequately Protect Residents and Their Bottom Line
  
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• Covenant House Quit Card and Poster

  Covenant House's creative advertisements for a cessation group.
  
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• Evaluation of Smoking Cessation and the GLBT
  community in Canada
  

  Evaluation by Gentium Consulting on behalf of the Program Training and Consultation Centre
  January 2005.
  The project's underpinning is that it is important to provide all smokers, from all communities and backgrounds, with a cessation environment where they feel comfortable and confident to express their own personal issues. This project's main objective was to provide and further develop gay-specific smoking cessation programs designed for men and women in both French and English within the City of Ottawa.
  
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• GLBT Community Center of Colorado's
  SmokeFree Case Study
  

  In 2005 the State of Colorado passed Constitutional Amendment 35, increasing tobacco tax from .20 to 84 cents per pack. All new revenue, approximately $189 million per year, was designated for health related purposes including approximately $25 million earmarked for tobacco control efforts. As part of the enabling legislation, at least 15% of the funding coming into the tobacco control program had to be used to address those with higher than average tobacco related burdens. Based upon national data, the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) population was designated by the State Tobacco Education and Prevention Partnership (STEPP) as a disparate health community launching a statewide effort of tobacco reduction within the GLBT community.
  
  This Case Study provides a summary and highlights of Colorado's SmokeFree GLBT project as their movement begins to reverse decades of tobacco industry targeting, marketing, and resulting addiction within the GLBT community.
  
  
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• Helping Smokers Quit

  A Tobacco Policy Trend Report from ALA
  
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• How to Run a Culturally Competent LGBT Smoking Treatment Group

  This 20-page book distills lessons learned from over 20 LGBT treatment groups run across the country as part of an American Legacy Foundation research project. Information is given on how to set up staffing, do outreach, tailor a curriculum and find other resources. The last chapter of the book adds a bonus, a low-effort recipe to evaluate any tobacco treatment group complete with model evaluation forms. According to Dr. Scout, "It was really frustrating to us as evaluators to realize there were no turnkey evaluations for treatment groups available. So we decided to create one we hope anyone can use because we all deserve to know when we're succeeding." If you would like to order a copy of the book for yourself or your organization, please follow the link below to fill out an order form. For a PDF version, please visit www.howardbrown.org
  
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• Identifying, Reaching and Delivering Culturally-Appropriate Telephonic Cessation to the GLBT Community

  This document outlines the way that Minnesota has reached out to the LGBT community through their quitline.
  
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• LGBTQ COMMUNITIES: Motivation to Quit Smoking

  Full of quit tips, motivational stories and resources, check out this LGBTQ Quitguide created by the Network and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota.
  
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• Mautner Project's Smoking Cessation Brochure

  A brochure for lesbians and quitting smoking.
  
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• NALGBTCC Tobacco Control Program Final Report

  A report of the findings from LGBT smoking cessation 46 focus groups in 22 cities. The focus groups looked into the association between stress and tobacco use; the role tobacco plays in within social life; tobacco's association with other drugs, especially alcohol; and smoker's attitudes about quitting and their health. Includes survey results and example surveys.
  The report is very useful in helping LGBT community centers that are looking to get involved with LGBT tobacco prevention and control or are already running a program.
  
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• NYAC FREE Resource Guide

  A resource guide for FREE – Friends for Real, Educating and Empowering – which helps train youth LGBTQ peer educators and adult allies to confront Tobacco. Information on youth statistics, youth marketing strategies, how-to quit and a full list of LGBT smoking cessation groups throughout the country.
  
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• Queer Tips

  Smoking cessation interventions in San Francisco's queer communities (Queer Tip): background of LGBTs and smoking, history of QueerTip and collaborative research, lessons learned, youth findings, transgender findings, evaluating existing classes, new smoking cessation manual, and future directions.
  
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• QueerTIPS Manual

  A Stop Smoking Class for LGBT Communities - facilitators manual. This manual is built on empirically validated methods of smoking cessation (the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association), previous LGBT stop smoking approaches (The Last Drag by CLASH, and Out and Free: Sexual Minorities and Tobacco Addiction by Emily Brucker), as well as the professional expertise of LGBT smoking cessation specialists.
  
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• Sample Evaluation for Tobacco Treatment Group

  An excerpt from a forthcoming manual on how to run cessation groups -- see this manual for a lessons learned and research-based sample evaluation that can be used with different tobacco treatment groups. It's made to be super simple for non-researchers to use!
  
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• Smoking Cessation Among Women with and at Risk for HIV: Are They Quitting?

  HIV-infected and at-risk women in this cohort have lower smoking cessation rates than the general population. Given the high prevalence of smoking, the high risk of adverse health events from smoking, and low rates of cessation, it is imperative that we increase efforts and overcome barriers to help these women quit smoking.
  
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LGBT-Specific Cessation Programs

• "Become an Ex" Campaign

  This smoking cessation program focuses on re-learning life without cigarettes.
  
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• Affirmations Center- Smoking Cessation Programs and Discussions
  Ferndale, MI

  Quit Smoking Workshop
  We can help you find out if you're ready to quit, and give you the tools to get started on developing a plan to kick the habit for good. Tobacco companies have been marketing their deadly products to us for years-now is the time to stop giving them our money and our health!
  
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• Affirmations Community Center

  The LGBT community center in Ferndale, Michigan -offers monthly quit smoking workshops for the LGBT community.
  
  
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• Bitch to Quit : Chicago, IL

  Free Quit-smoking groups for women. Run by the Howard Brown Health Center and the Lesbian Community Cancer Project.
  
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• Covenant House Quit Card and Poster

  Covenant House's creative advertisements for a cessation group.
  
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• Gay City Health Project- Out to Quit
  Seattle, WA

  A free six-week smoking cessation workshop series for gay & bisexual men who want to: make a plan and stick to it, learn skills to handle stress and health, and get support from other queer guys.
  
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• L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center- The Last Drag
  Los Angeles, CA

  The Center's free smoking cessation program, the Last Drag, is a series of seven, two-hour sessions that offer gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive smokers the tools, techniques and personalized support they need to become non-smokers.
  
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• LGBT SmokeFree Project -The LGBT Community Center in NYC
  New York City, NY

  For the past decade, the Center has provided free tobacco cessation services geared toward the LGBT community. They currently offer three programs:
  Queer Quit, Not Quite Ready to Quit, and Commit to Quit.
  
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• LGBTQ COMMUNITIES: Motivation to Quit Smoking (National Edition)

  We now have turned our Blue Cross/Blue Shield Minnesota guide "LGBTQ COMMUNITIES: Motivation to Quit Smoking" into a national document full of quit tips, motivational stories and resources. created by the Network and We're happy to share this book with any quitline who wants to reprint it for distribution to LGBT callers,just shoot us an email!
  
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• Mazzoni Center - Philadelphia's LGBT Health Center

  Mazzoni Center offers several different cessation support groups as well as individual counseling and a "Fresh OUT mixer".
  
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• Pacific Pride Foundation - Kick Butt Tobacco Cessation Program
  Santa Barbara, CA

  A tobacco cessation program for the LGBT community in the Santa Barbara California area. Kick butt offers group classes, individual programs, and workshops for smokers who are not ready to quit yet.
  
  
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• Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa

  Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa (PPGI) is paving the way for sensitive LGBT health care in Des Moines and around Iowa. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals often encounter obstacles in accessing open and accurate health care. PPGI is working to eliminate these barriers through our multifaceted LGBT Initiative. The three year effort has three goals:
  Improve health care for LGBT people.
  Raise awareness of the health concerns of LGBT people through community education and outreach.
  Establish adoption services that welcome LGBT people as adoptive parents.
  Services available at the Family Practice Center include:
  
  Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender healthcare
  Family and pediatric care
  Minor surgery
  Obesity management
  Cancer screenings
  Preventative care and immunizations
  STI testing and treatment
  HIV testing
  Smoking cessation
  
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• Put It Out
  Chicago, Illinois

  Mixed gender smoking cessation groups for LGBT individuals through Howard Brown Health Center.
  
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• Quitline Poster-LGBT Friendly

  Check out our resource library under Spotlight on Quitlines and Surveillence for the LGBT Tobacco Quitline poster that will soon be up in health centers and doctor offices around the country! If you would like a copy of the poster, or know where we could put one up, let us know. lgbttobacco@gmail.com
  
  
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• The Last Drag
  San Francisco, CA

  FREE quitting smoking classes for LGBTI & HIV+ smokers in San Francisco.
  
  Quit smoking in a confidential and supportive group setting. Classes led by a highly skilled and experienced clinic leader certified by the American Lung Association.
  
  Classes are held four times a year and are free of charge.
  
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• The Mautner Project - Kick Butts
  Washington, D.C.

  Mautner - the National Lesbian Health Organization - offers an 8 week toabcco cessation group in Washington D.C.. They also have a "delicious lesbian kisses" countermarketing campaign. (see the ads under the countermarketing link)
  
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• Verbena - Out to Quit
  Seattle, WA

  A tobacco cessation program for lesbian, bisexual & queer women, of all ages, ready to quit tobacco use. (Seattle, WA).
  
  Out to Quit groups once per week of eight consecutive weeks. Participants must be willing to commit to attending all sessions, unless unusual circumstances exist. Free nicotine replacement therapy is available upon request.
  
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• www.lgbtpartnership.org

  California LGBT Tobacco Education Partnership's mission is to counteract, through education and advocacy efforts, the negative impact tobacco use has had on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community.
  
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