Impact of the Tips From Former Smokers Campaign on Population-Level Smoking Cessation, 2012-2015

Prev Chronic Dis. 2018 May 31:15:E71. doi: 10.5888/pcd15.180051.

Abstract

This study provides estimates of the long-term cumulative impact of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's national tobacco education campaign, Tips From Former Smokers (Tips), on population-level smoking cessation. We used recently published estimates of the association between increased Tips campaign media doses and quit attempts to calculate campaign-attributable population sustained (6-month) quits during 2012-2015. Tips led to approximately 522,000 sustained quits during 2012-2015. These findings indicate that the Tips campaign's comprehensive approach to combining evidence-based messages with the promotion of cessation resources was successful in achieving substantial long-term cigarette cessation at the population level over multiple years.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.*
  • Female
  • Health Promotion*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mass Media
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Smokers
  • Smoking / epidemiology*
  • Smoking Cessation*
  • Smoking Prevention*
  • United States / epidemiology