A Successful Smoking Cessation Strategy for the Workplace

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A Successful Smoking Cessation Strategy for the
Workplace

• Sally Beckett
• Greater Wichita YMCA

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YMCA Quit Together Program

• March 2004- American Legacy Grant/ Circle of
  Friends
• Smoking Cessation program geared toward women in
  Wichita
• American Lung Association- Freedom From Smoking
  Curriculum
• Physical Activity
• Nutrition- Partnering with Wichita Clinic
• Kansas Tobacco Quitline- 1-866-KAN-STOP

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Major Accomplishments

• 48 success rate compared to national average of
  10
• 25 women have completed the program
• 14 women currently enrolled

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Why Quit Together Works

• Fitness Evaluation
• Body Fat
• Weight
• BMI
• Personal attention from a fitness professional
• Water aerobics
• Weight training
• Group events
• Yoga
• Nutrition education with a Registered Dietician
  from the Wichita Clinic
• Serving Sizes
• New Food Pyramid
• Grocery store food trips
• Good and Bad Fats
• Menu Analysis

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Smoking Cessation

• American Lung Associations Freedom From
  Smoking
• Individual weekly cessation coaching
• Strategy planning
• Sharing- Group Support
• Stress Management

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Why should you care?
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Impact of Tobacco

• Single most preventable cause of disease and
  death
• Causes over 440,000 deaths/yr in the USA
• More deaths than Aids, alcohol, MVA, homicides,
  drugs, and suicides combined
• Communities of color and other priority
  populations disproportionately affected

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Impact of Tobacco cont.

• Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals
• Over 45 are known carcinogens
• Responsible for 30 of all cancer deaths in the
  USA, and 87 of all lung cancer deaths
• Responsible for 21 of all cardiovascular deaths
  in the USA

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Leading Causes of Death
KDHE Bureau of Health Promotion Tobacco Use and
Prevention Program
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Smoking in the USWomen vs. Men
Women 20 Men 25.2
KDHE Bureau of Health Promotion Tobacco Use and
Prevention Program
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What is in a cigarette?

• Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals
  including 55 known cancer-causing chemicals
• Ammonia (found toilet bowl cleaners)
• Arsenic (also a rat poison)
• Polomiun 210 (nuclear waste)
• Carbon monoxide (car exhaust)
• Acetone (finger nail polish remover)
• 55 other known cancer-causing chemicals

Journeyworks Publishing 2005
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Nicotine Addition Facts

• Nicotine is as addictive as cocaine or heroin.
• Tobacco companies spend 30 million a day to
  promote cigarettes, most aimed at young smokers.
• One cigar has as much tobacco as 10 cigarettes.

Journeyworks Publishing 2005
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Economic Impact of Tobacco

• Medical care costs attributable to smoking is
  more than 50-73 billion/yr
• Additional 47 billion/yr in lost earnings and
  lost productivity
• Male smokers incur 15,800 lifetime medical
  expenses, absent 4 days/yr more
• Female smokers incur 17,500 lifetime medical
  expenses, absent 2 days/yr more

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Economic Impact cont.

• Estimated 6.3 billion/yr to provide 75 of adult
  smokers with a cessation intervention
• Resulting in 1.7 million new quitters,
  3,779/quitter
• Quitting before 50 cuts the risk of dying in half
  over the next 15 years.

Center for Disease Control 1999-2001
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Food for thought

• Only 21 of physicians feel they have received
  adequate cessation training in medical school
• Smoking cessation is more cost effective than
  other clinical preventive services (i.e.
  mammogram, PAP, colon

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YMCA Smoking Cessation at the Workplace

• On-site classes
• Lunch and learn
• During work time
• Before and after work
• Employer subsidizes
• Onsite/ offsite during work time
• NRT
• Self-help materials
• Incentives
• for individuals and groups
• Policy
• Smoke-free worksites
• Benefits for non-smokers
• Health care costs

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Thank you!
Sally Beckett, Quit Together Coordinator Greater
Wichita YMCA 3330 N. Woodlawn Wichita, KS
67220 316-219-9622 ex t 232 sally_at_wichitaymca.org