Traditional and Innovative Promotional Strategies of Tobacco Cessation Services: A Review of the Literature

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• Alternative Title:
  J Community Health
• Personal Author:
  Momin, Behnoosh ; Neri, Antonio ; McCausland, Kristen ; Duke, Jennifer ; Hansen, Heather ; Kahende, Jennifer ; Zhang, Lei ; Stewart, Sherri L.
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  An estimated 43.5 million American adults currently smoke cigarettes. Well-designed tobacco education campaigns with adequate reach increase cessation and reduce tobacco use. Smokers report great interest in quitting but few use effective treatments including quitlines. This review examined traditional (TV, radio, print ads) versus innovative tobacco cessation (internet, social media) promotions for quitline services.
  
  Methods
  
  Between November 2011 and January 2012, searches were conducted on EBSCO, PubMed, Wilson, OCLC, CQ Press, Google Scholar, Gale, LexisNexis, and JSTOR.
  
  Results
  
  Existing literature shows that the amount of radio and print advertising, and promotion of free cessation medications increases quitline (QL) call volume. Television advertising volume seems to be the best predictor of QL service awareness. Much of the literature on Internet advertising compares the characteristics of participants recruited for studies through various channels. The majority of the papers indicated that Internet-recruited participants were younger; this was the only demographic characteristic with high agreement across studies.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Traditional media was only studied within mass media campaigns with TV ads having a consistent impact on increasing calls to quitlines, therefore, it is hard to distinguish the impact of traditional media as an independent QL promotion intervention. With innovative media, while many QL services have a presence on social media sites, there is no literature on evaluating the effectiveness of these channels for quitline promotion.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Advertising As Topic Consumer Health Information Databases, Bibliographic Health Promotion Hotlines Humans Internet Marketing Of Health Services Mass Media Organizational Innovation Smoking Smoking Cessation Social Media

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• Source:
  J Community Health. 39(4):800-809.
• Pubmed ID:
  24515948
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5322279
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  39
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7677a7a5d94fb7adf6b5413a23f52d2991c53f645c7ac953afd276db7df95f7d
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44346/cdc_44346_DS1.pdf
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