Overview
ICSH Cessation Subcommittee
Purpose | Outcomes
| Objectives | Mechanism | Timeline
Purpose
The Cessation Subcommittee of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health
(ICSH) is charged with making recommendations on how best to promote tobacco use
cessation. The subcommittee will develop and submit to the Secretary of Health
and Human Services a report that contains action steps for both a Secretary of
Health and Human Services initiative and public-private partnerships to best
promote tobacco use cessation. The work of
the subcommittee will be informed by four key documents: the Public Health
Service’s Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence;
the U.S. Task Force on Community Preventive Services’ Guide to Community
Preventive Services: Tobacco Use Prevention and Control; the ICSH Action
Plan on Tobacco Use Cessation, and the National Blueprint for
Disseminating and Implementing Evidence-Based Clinical and Community Strategies
to Promote Tobacco Use Cessation.
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Outcomes
Assist the Secretary of Health and Human Services in promoting tobacco use cessation
and address identified
barriers through public-private partnerships, administrative means, legislative
recommendations, and identification of new resources for cessation.
Objectives
Obtain input and support from influential individuals and organizations
regarding opportunities to promote tobacco use cessation, barriers to promote cessation, and recommendations for overcoming those barriers. Transmit
a report to the Secretary that outlines specific action steps for the Department
of Health and Human Services to promote tobacco use cessation and overcome identified barriers that will
be implemented in 2003 and subsequent years.
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Mechanism
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) serves in a leadership role for fostering the science of
tobacco use cessation and translation of science into action. The documents
mentioned above articulate objectives and strategies to promote tobacco use
cessation in four different domains: clinicians, health care systems,
communities and consumers. Evidence suggests that barriers exist in each of
these domains that must be overcome and that strategies must be integrated in
order to best facilitate change. To date, information has not been gathered in a
systematic fashion about how DHHS can work to address these barriers,
facilitate integration and promote tobacco use cessation most effectively. DHHS
coordination will support the Secretary’s
prevention agenda, and form the basis for public-private partnerships that
address specific recommended actions for promoting cessation and improving the
health of all Americans.
Given the strong scientific foundation of these documents, CDC proposes that a series of meetings be convened
to obtain specific and
directed input from key audiences who must work to coordinate and promote
successful tobacco use cessation. Input should be focused on the
opportunities to promote tobacco use cessation, strategies to overcome barriers,
and challenges faced by each group to ensure these objectives are implemented
with DHHS' support.
This input could be translated into specific action that DHHS could undertake
to promote cessation, and could also be used to invite private sector leaders to join
the DHHS Secretary in making
cessation a reality for all Americans.
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Timeline
An initial meeting of the subcommittee will be followed by
meetings in various geographic locations across the country to receive public
input. After reporting to the Secretary from the
full ICSH, the Secretary could invite key leaders to
Washington to participate in an event demonstrating their commitment to tobacco
use cessation.
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