Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network (TCLN)
The Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network is a national collaborative knowledge network sponsored by the OHSU Smoking Cessation Center . The TCLN includes leaders in all 50 states and from many national tobacco control agencies. The mission of the Network is to help increase the capacity in every state to establish effective, sustainable, and affordable cessation services to help tobacco users quit and stay quit. We seek to do this by linking state and national cessation leaders together to share information, resources and strategies, thereby enabling programs in each state to become more comprehensive and successful.
Partial funding for the TCLN comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking or Health.
A current 2-year project of the TCLN is "Bringing Everyone Along: Reaching Smokers with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders." This project is funded with a grant from the American Legacy Foundation to develop and distribute a Resource Guide for assisting health professionals and tobacco treatment specialists to more effectively work with patients or clients with a history of mental health and/or substance use disorders. Online and interview survey data from programs around the U.S. have been collected with the guidance of an Expert Advisory Committee. These results will be compiled into the Resource Guide during the summer and fall of 2007, posted on the TCLN website, and disseminated to TCLN members, partners and colleagues during 2008.
All tobacco cessation leaders are eligible to join the network online at the TCLN website ( www.tcln.org )
OHSU Tobacco-Free Initiative
The Smoking Cessation Center is helping to provide leadership for the new OHSU Tobacco Free Initiative. The OHSU campus will become 100% tobacco free on September 17 th . Details of this 2-year Initiative can be found at www.ohsu.edu/tobaccofree .