More than Three-Fourths of Healthcare Organizations Stamp Out Smoking

Feb. 24, 2009 - PRLog -- MANASQUAN, NJ, USA — A recent report from the CDC found that smoking costs the nation $193 billion per year in healthcare expenditures and productivity losses — up from a previous estimate of $167 billion — and that smoking results in 5.1 million years of potential life lost in the United States each year. According to "Putting Out the Addiction, Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Programs," a complimentary downloadable HIN white paper, over 75 percent of responding organizations are offering tobacco cessation and prevention programs to their population. The white paper summarizes a new survey in which 221 healthcare organizations told HIN how they are doing their part in the crusade for tobacco cessation and prevention.

Download this white paper on tobacco prevention and cessation programs at: http://www.hin.com/cgi-local/link/news/pl.cgi?tcp.

NEWS FACTS:

HIN’s six-page white paper, "Putting Out the Addiction, Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Programs," provides ideas and suggestions for tobacco cessation and prevention programs, and gives details on:

--- The top intervention methods and cessation modalities employed by responding organizations;
--- Incentives use in tobacco cessation and prevention;
--- Cessation and prevention program components;
--- Measuring outcomes from smoking cessation programs;
--- Challenges and benefits of programs;

And much more!


Download this white paper on tobacco prevention and cessation programs at: http://www.hin.com/cgi-local/link/news/pl.cgi?tcp.



QUOTE ATTRIBUTABLE TO MELANIE MATTHEWS, HIN EXECUTIVE VP AND COO:

To view Melanie Matthews's profile, please visit: http://www.hin.com/bios.html#mm.

“The prevalance of tobacco use among Americans is not only costing the healthcare industry upwards of billions of dollars, but it is costing the the United States countless lives; from 2000 to 2004, at least 443,000 people in this country alone died prematurely each year as a result of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke. This white paper offers many examples of how organizations can improve health and productivity in their populations. Perhaps rising costs coupled with the escalating number of lives lost is why so many healthcare organizations — such as many of the respondents cited in this complimentary white paper — are jumping on this bandwagon and offering tobacco cessation and prevention programs to their members."  

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