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Below are the latest happenings with Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative (CCGC)'s Tobacco Program. Please check back often for new information, events, and updates.

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May 7th Release of United States PHS Guideline Update: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence

Dear Colleagues,

On May 7th, the U.S. Public Health Service released the 2008 Clinical Practice Guideline Update: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. It represents nearly two years of work by a 24-member panel. The Guideline Update is designed to provide an evidence-based blueprint for clinicians and health systems to assist patients who smoke to successfully quit tobacco use. 

The 2008 Guideline Update panel reviewed more than 8,700 research articles on tobacco dependence published between 1975 and 2007, and conducted more than 50 meta-analyses. The draft document was reviewed by more than 90 independent peer reviewers, including CCGC's own Dr. Elizabeth Kraft.  It was sponsored by a consortium of eight Federal Government and nonprofit organizations: the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); National Cancer Institute (NCI); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF); The American Legacy Foundation; and the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. 

Copies of the Guideline and its companion materials are available at www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco.

In addition, on May 7th, an electronic summary of the Guideline written by the panel was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (www.ajpm-online.net).  Also, on May 7th, a commentary was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Dr. Carlos Jaén and Dr. Michael Fiore, titled:  A Clinical Blueprint to Accelerate the Elimination of Tobacco Dependence.

The Guideline Update was released on May 7th at an event hosted by the American Medical Association at their headquarters in Chicago.  That event featured some of the nation's leading public health and medical officials, including Dr. Ron Davis, Dr. Tom Frieden, Dr. Sue Curry, Dr. Carlos Jaén, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Dr. Tracy Orleans, Dr. Scott Leischow, and former Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. C.Everett Koop.  The Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative was proud to be one of more than 55 organizations that reviewed and endorsed the Guideline Update announced at the May 7th release.  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Partnership for Prevention have posted a webcast of the event available at:
www.rwjf.org or www.prevent.org.

Finally, please join the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative for an informational webinar Tuesday, June 3, 2008 from 12:00 -1:00 pm on the Guideline Update. Hear Dr. Elizabeth Kraft, Tobacco Medical Director for CCGC review the updated guideline highlighting areas of new or expanded information.  Please visit www.coloradoguidelines.org/tobacco/professionaldevelopment.asp to register or to view the recorded webinar (recording available after June 6, 2008).

Sincerely,
The CCGC Tobacco Team

CCGC as a Peer Reviewer

The CCGC tobacco team and the tobacco guideline committee were acknowledged for the expertise they gained developing the revised CCGC Tobacco Cessation and Secondhand Smoke (SHS) Exposure Guideline last fall with a great honor over the past few months. Dr Michael Fiore, the chair of the U.S. Public Health Service committee to update the Clinical Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, has invited CCGC to be a peer reviewer for this work.  The revised national guideline will be released in early 2008.

The CCGC guideline is ahead of the national guideline in combining both tobacco cessation and SHS exposure reduction into the 5As intervention model.  The key messaging points are in one guideline for clinicians who may want to address these issues with more than just their patient- family members and caretakers who may be affected by tobacco use.  The national guideline still focuses primarily on cessation, but will include updated information from studies on prenatal smoking cessation, adolescents, current therapies, and special populations.

hospitalAdditional Information

For questions and additional information, please contact one the Tobacco Program team members below at (720) 297-1681.

              • Elizabeth Kraft, MD, MHS (Tobacco Project Medical Director)
              • Michele Patarino, MBA, MSHA (Tobacco Project Director)
              • Alison Long, MPH (Tobacco Project Director)
              • Emily Gingerich (Tobacco Project Manager)