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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Tobacco Use: Quitline Interventions

About this resource:

Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: August 2012

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends quitline interventions —  especially proactive quitlines (which offer follow-up counseling calls) — to increase tobacco cessation in people interested in quitting. Quitlines provide evidence-based behavioral counseling and support over the phone to help people quit using tobacco. CPSTF found that 3 types of interventions increased the use of quitlines:

  • Mass-reach health communication interventions that combine messages about quitting with a quitline number
  • Giving free tobacco cessation medicines to quitline callers
  • Quitline referrals from health care systems and providers 
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Objectives related to this resource (10)

Reduce current tobacco use in adults — TU‑01
Improving
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adults — TU‑02
LHI label
Improving
Reduce current cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking in adults — TU‑03
Improving
Reduce current tobacco use in adolescents — TU‑04
LHI label
Getting worse
Reduce current cigarette smoking in adolescents — TU‑06
Target met or exceeded
Reduce current cigar smoking in adolescents — TU‑07
Improving
Reduce current use of smokeless tobacco products among adolescents — TU‑08
Target met or exceeded
Increase past-year attempts to quit smoking in adults — TU‑11
Little or no detectable change
Increase use of smoking cessation counseling and medication in adults who smoke — TU‑13
Baseline only
Increase successful quit attempts in adults who smoke — TU‑14
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2012). Tobacco Use: Quitline Interventions. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/tobacco-use-quitline-interventions