New Year's Resolutions Resources for Quitting Smoking

New Year’s is a time when many people make resolutions to quit smoking. To leverage this once-a-year opportunity, OSH has communications activities and products that can help people commit to quit smoking in 2013. Below is a list of them. We hope your organization can use the materials and resources to support those in your community who want to quit. We encourage you to share this E-mail with your tobacco control partners so that they can use them, too.

Sincerely,
CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health

Products and Activities

CDC Feature Article: Commit to Quit Smoking in 2013
http://www.cdc.gov/features/smokingcessation/index.html
This article:

* Encourages tobacco users to protect their health by showing the short- and long-term benefits to be gained by quitting smoking
* Presents two videos from CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers campaign showing techniques that two smokers—Beatrice and James—used when trying to stop smoking
Beatrice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVuRNZP5igo&feature=plcp
James: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MlDuDWLo0U&feature=plcp

* Provides helpful quitting resources, including techniques people can use individually, with support groups, and through their health care practitioners

Commit to Quit Smoking in 2013 Button
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/buttons/new_year/index.htm
Show your support for the feature article’s messages on your own Web site—and send a strong message to your site’s visitors that New Year’s is an ideal time to quit smoking—with this downloadable button.
Information on OSH’s Smoking & Tobacco Use Web Site
Your one-stop shop: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/index.htm

Here is a link to the January Media Calendar page, which in turn contains links to the CDC feature article as well as to quitting resources and social media tools. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/calendar/jan/new_year/resolution/index.htm

Like, Follow, and Subscribe! Social Media Engagement
To take advantage of all the activities we have planned on our social media profiles, you may wish to proactively like and follow @CDCTobaccoFree on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/cdctobaccofree> and Twitter<http://twitter.com/cdctobaccofree> and subscribe to the Smoking & Tobacco Use playlist on YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL184B81EA3136E9FE&feature=plcp>. Doing so will enable you to receive and share status updates and profile updates as they are posted.