Gillian Schauer, Program Manager, Tobacco Cessation Resource Center:   A recent U.S. study in Health News reported that many health care providers are not receiving adequate training in tobacco intervention, stating that 87% to 93% of doctors and other health care providers receive les... [More]

Yuki Yang, Senior Director, Client Services:   What does it take for an Ivy League school to offer its employees a benefit that could decrease their healthcare spend while increase the health and wellness of its employees?  Seems to make sense perfect sense that an Ivy League scho... [More]

Tim McAfee, Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Behavioral Sciences:   The federal panel that recommends what immunizations Americans should get has determined that all adult smokers should be immunized against a bacteria that causes pneumonia and meningitis (the pneumococcal vaccine). ... [More]

Kristine Carabeo, Quit Coach, Service Delivery:   When talking with people who are trying to quit smoking, I often hear someone say that they are happy that they have “cut back” on their smoking. And cutting back on how many cigarettes you smoke each day is definitely a gre... [More]

Ken Wassum, Senior Product Manager   We have become somewhat numb to the fact that 440,000 Americans a year die from a preventable cause – cigarette smoking. That’s 1,200 deaths per day. Use whatever analogy you want -- 48 Amtrak accidents per day where 25 die, 3 fully load... [More]

Gillian Schauer, Program Manager, Tobacco Cessation Resource Center:   Washington State celebrated a great achievement last week: the smoking rate for adults has continued to drop over the past year. Now, only about 16.5 percent of all adults in Washington smoke, according to the Washin... [More]

Margaret Waresak, Senior Supervisor, Service Delivery:   With the current upheaval of our stock market and what seems like new reports of government take-overs each day, it came as no surprise when I read that American International Group, Inc. (AIG) will be removed from the Dow Jones ... [More]

Alex Wright, Quit Coach Supervisor, Service Delivery:   As a UK citizen my attention has been captured recently by the BBC news reports of a woman thrown onto the railway tracks for asking two men to stop smoking in the station. To put some context on this domestic light transit in the... [More]

Ken Wassum, Senior Product Manager:   In 1994 the tobacco industry stated, “…neither cigarette smoking nor the nicotine delivered in cigarettes is addictive.” In order to confuse the issue of the dangers to health from cigarette smoking, they planned to “..defe... [More]

Sharen Ross, Vice President, Marketing:   Think back to a time when you made a major life-changing decision. Perhaps you decided to go back to school to finish a degree. Maybe you decided to lose weight, start jogging, become a vegetarian or quit drinking. Now think about what led you ... [More]