Tobacco Cessation Policy Podcast

Join the American Lung Association for a conversation with Cherline Gene from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Cherline shares about what Massachusetts has done and is doing to help people quit mentholated tobacco products and the importance of contextualizing data. Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0. 

Join the American Lung Association for a conversation with Delaney McMath from the Colorado Department of Health. She shares her experience starting out at a Tobacco Control Program and her work with tobacco cessation coverage. Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Join us for a conversations with two pediatricians from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). We discuss the AAP's Clinical Considerations for treating tobacco use in kids and ways tobacco control programs can use it. Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope ” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0. 

Please join the American Lung Association for a conversation with Rhode Island about how they have collected tobacco cessation coverage data in their state.  Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope ” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0. 

Join us for a conversation with Caroline Cranos from Massachusetts, as she shares what Massachusetts has done to allow care extenders, in this case Tobacco Treatment Specialists, to provide cessation treatment. Learn about the important role care extenders can play in tobacco cessation treatment and how their services can be covered. Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope ” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Join us for a conversation with Tyrone Whitehorse from Utah, as he shares his experience and lessons learned from working with their Insurance Commissioner to get a bulletin on tobacco cessation coverage. For more information on insurance bulletins, please check out our toolkit on lung.org/cessationTA. Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0. 

Join us for a conversation with the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS). We talk about ways states can use CDC’s 6ǀ18 initiative framework to create a partnership between state Medicaid programs and Public Health Departments. To access various CHCS resources discussed in the podcast, visit https://www.618resources.chcs.org/ and collab.chcs.org. Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0.  

Join us as we talk with the Vermont Department of Health on how they have worked to track and improve tobacco cessation treatment in their state Medicaid program. Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Join the American Lung Association for a conversation with the Colorado Department of Health on how they are working with their Medicaid program to collect tobacco cessation treatment utilization data. Learn how the state has been successful in collecting these data and how they are using them. Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0. 

During the pandemic, healthcare providers had to quickly shift most of their care to telehealth. Join the Lung Association as we talk with Margaret Antenucci about how she works with patients to help them quit tobacco during the COVID-19 pandemic. Music attribution: “Creative Commons Hope” by Yakov Golman is licensed under CC BY 4.0.