Resources - General Smoking Cessation
Smoking Cessation in the Workplace: A Guide to Helping Your Employees Quit Smoking, Health Canada
This guide is for employers and others who promote health in the workplace. It outlines the reasons why workplaces should get involved and support employees' efforts to cut down or quit smoking. It also provides practical, relevant material on smoking cessation that can be used either as part of a comprehensive wellness program or as an initiative on its own. The kinds of smoking cessation activities that can be offered are explained, the necessary steps are outlined, and handouts, tools and a list of further resources and references are also included.
Employers’ Smoking Cessation Guide: Practical Approaches to a Costly Workplace Problem, PACT
PACT’s (Professional Assisted Cessation Therapy) new publication, Employers’ Smoking Cessation Guide: Practical Approaches to a Costly Workplace Problem, is a tool to help employers, large and small, enact affordable, effective smoking cessation programs in their companies. The Guide makes the “business case” for employer involvement in smoking cessation, highlighting the enormous direct and indirect costs—both in health care and lost productivity—of smoking.
Program Checklist: Group Smoking Cessation
This 10 page document uses the Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative's Better Practices Model to help you select programs and strategies for group smoking cessation. It extracts key principles as well as lists programs that represent "better practices" for group smoking cessation.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS): Workplace Policy, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
This document covers issues related to smoking restrictions in the workplace including legal obligations, ventilation, and steps to take when instituting a workplace smoking policy.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS): General Information and Health Effects, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
This document covers the basic issues of what environmental tobacco smoke is and what are the health effects of passive smoking. Examples from workplace exposure situations are used wherever possible.
Smoking cessation in the workplace: results of an intervention programme using nicotine patches, Occupational Medicine 51:501-506 (2001)
A peer reviewed article that details one company’s success with a smoking cessation program. The link to the abstract is above with a free link to the full article in pdf form.
Introduction to Smoking Cessation Programs, Ontario Hospital Association
Although this resource is aimed at hospital employees, the information can be relevant to all workplaces. This resource assists employers in gathering smoking cessation program baseline data in order to properly measure the success of the program.
Towards a Healthier Workplace: A guidebook on Tobacco Control Policies
This Resource is designed to help employees and employers who are preparing to create or strengthen tobacco control policies in their workplaces.
Smoking and the Bottom Line: The Costs of Smoking in the Workplace, Conference Board of Canada
Although this report uses data from 1995, the information is still very relevant today. The report carefully examines the costs related to smoking in the workplace and quantifies four cost factors which include: increased absenteeism, lost productivity, increased life insurance premiums, and smoking area costs.
Resources - Smoking and Pregnancy
Pregnets
This website provides the most up-to-date information on smoking cessation practices for pregnant and postpartum women.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hp-gs/know-savoir/smoke_fumer_e.html ">Smoking and Pregnancy, Health Canada
Smoking and pregnancy facts including links to helpful resources
Quitting and Pregnancy, Health Canada
Tips and advice on why and how you can quit smoking when pregnant
Pre- and Postnatal issues, Health Canada
The website covers all pre- and postnatal smoking issues.
Smoking and Pregnancy, Alberta, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
Facts on smoking and pregnancy put together by the Alberta, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission.
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