Title: Tobacco Free Nurses Initiative
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Section/SPIG: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
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The Tobacco Free Nurses Initiative, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is the first national program focused on helping nurses and student nurses to stop smoking. Our partners on this project include the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, American Nurses Foundation/American Nurses Association, and the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurses Associations.
We have also partnered with QuitNet, an organization that has helped tens of thousands quit smoking through its unique online community of smokers and ex-smokers. Since 1995, QuitNet has applied proven scientific methods to the Web to deliver personalized quitting plans, intensive social support, expert advice and pharmaceutical product support to tobacco users.
Together with QuitNet we have created an Internet-based smoking cessation site tailored especially for nurses and nursing students who want to quit smoking. From this site you can freely access QuitNet's special Nurses section, where you'll find tools and resources you can use to help quit smoking, scientific guides about quitting, expert counselors available to take your questions, and most importantly, other nurses like you who want to quit! Click here to go to our QuitNet entry page and take advantage of your membership sponsored by the Tobacco Free Nurses project.
This Web site also has an extensive cessation resources for health professionals section, designed to provide you with smoking cessation information, smoking research, international links, and information about trying to quit. We hope you will find it an informative and useful tool for you to use as a reference and resource for tobacco intervention.
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