The cessation element provides smoking cessation services to residents, and trains practitioners and community partners on clinical and community strategies to help people quit smoking. Cessation programs are recommended by CDC’s Best Practices for comprehensive tobacco control programs and the Task Force to End Smoking in Maryland.

Programmatic efforts:

Local health departments are implementing several strategies to help Marylanders quit smoking: group cessation classes, one-on-one counseling sessions, pharmacotherapy (Zyban, nicotine patches, nicotine inhaler, and nicotine lozenges) and support groups.

Training medical practitioners on the clinical guidelines for smoking cessation and protocols to provide cessation classes

Training community partners to be smoking cessation facilitators.
Funding community organizations to develop and implement culturally sensitive Programs

In FY 07:

• 1,294  nurses, health care providers,   advocates and community leaders were trained on the various cessation models
• 7,169 adults participated in smoking  cessation classes
• 5, 245 received nicotine patches or Zyban
• 621 pregnant women  participated in smoking cessation classes

Cessation Accomplishments