1st Edition
Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation Commit
The Community Intervention Trial for smoking cessation (COMMIT) is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and involves eleven pairs of communities in North America. COMMIT emphasizes a partnership between the eleven research institutions and their respective intervention communities in developing the structures needed to implement the intervention protocol. We summarize the epidemiological data and describe the prior community interventions that set the stage for COMMIT, and discuss how COMMIT may inform state-wide tobacco reduction demonstration programs. An overview of the articles that describe the COMMIT intervention and evaluation plan is presented.
Editor's Foreword George Cernada
Acknowledgments Edward Lichtenstein, Lawrence Wallack, and Terry Pechacek (Issue Co- Editors)
Introduction to the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) Edward Lichtenstein, Lawrence Wallack, and Terry F. Pechacek
Principles of Community Organization and Partnership for Smoking Cessation in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) Beti Thompson, Lawrence Wallack, Edward Lichtenstein, and Terry Pechacek
Media Advocacy and Public Education in the Community Intervention Trial to Reduce Heavy Smoking (COMMIT) Lawrence Wallack and Russell Sciandra
Health Care Providers as Key Change Agents in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) Judith K. Ockene, Elizabeth Lindsay, Lawrence Berger, and Norman Hymowitz
Promoting Smoking Control through Worksites in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) Glorian Sorensen, Russell E. Glasgow, and Kitty Corbett
Enhancing Resources for Smoking Cessation through Community Intervention: COMMIT as a Prototype Paul Pomrehn, Russell Sciandra, Robert Shipley, William Lynn, and Harry Lando
Evaluation Plan for the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT)
Margaret E. Mattson, K. Michael Cummings, William R. Lynn, Carol Giffen, Don Corle, and Terry Pechacek
Process Evaluation in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) Kitty Corbett, Beti Thompson, Norman White, and Martin Taylor
Biography
Edward Lictenstein, Lawrence Wallack, Terry Pechacek