Contributing Factors (What's helping the trend?):

• • Tobacco cessation courses and health education prevention programs on the risks/long term consequences of tobacco use
  • Large scale media campaigns spreading knowledge on the harmful effects of tobacco use

Restricting Factors (What's keeping the trend from improving?):

• • Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic restricted program activities, access, and availability

Equity Issues (What disparities are contributing?):

• • Racial and ethnic minorities
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Educational attainment
  • Geographic region
  • Gender and sexual orientation minorities
  • Single parents
  • Active military and veteran populations
  • Individuals living with mental illness
  • Populations of individuals living with disabilities

Clermont County Public Health 

Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

Mercy Health

Evidence-based resources:

• Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
• Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General

Mass media campaigns against tobacco use

Tobacco cessation access

Tobacco cessation tailored for specific populations

Mass media campaign against tobacco use

• Mass media campaign against tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure (Clermont County Public Health)

Tobacco cessation access

• Tobacco cessation therapy affordability (Clermont County Public Health)

• Health care provider reminder systems for tobacco cessation (Clermont County Public Health)

• Telephonic tobacco cessation programs (tobacco quit lines and text message-based health interventions) (Clermont County Public Health)

• Smoking cessation classes (Clermont County Public Health, Mercy Health)

• Psychoeducational presentations on tobacco cessation, and tobacco cessation individual therapy sessions offered by certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist (Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services)

Tobacco cessation tailored for specific populations

• Psychoeducational presentations on tobacco cessation offered in SUD groups utilizing Motivational Interviewing framework (Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services)

• Tobacco cessation individual therapy sessions offered for SUV and dual diagnosis clients (Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services)

Policy Development/Enactment/Monitoring

• Monitor and support legislation to ban flavoring of tobacco and nicotine products (Clermont County Public Health)