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Achieving Health Equity: Toward a Commercial Tobacco-Free California, 2021-2022

Objective 6: Motivate and help tobacco users to quit

 Tobacco users must be encouraged to quit early and to keep trying after a failed attempt. The quit attempt rate is the most important driver of cessation on the population levelā€”even more important than the proportion of tobacco users using treatment.79 To motivate quit attempts and improve success rates, offer tobacco users evidence-based, culturally appropriate cessation services, including medications and counseling. This is particularly true for members of marginalized communities, who experience disproportionate tobacco industry marketing pressure, and for people with chronic disease or mental health conditions.

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Achieving Health Equity also includes objectives on the following topics. Click on the links to learn more:

1 - Reducing Disparities

2 - Strengthening Capacity

3 - Overlap of Tobacco and Cannabis

4 - Youth and Young Adults

5 - Effects on People and Environment

6 - Cessation

7 - Counter the Industry

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