Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 6
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institue
This monograph, Community-Based Interventions for Smokers: The COMMIT Field Experience deals with community-based approaches for organizing, activating, and
empowering communities to take action against smoking. It reports the results and
experiences of the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT),
a research project to test community-based approaches to smoking cessation. Carried
out in 22 communities, comprising 11 treatments and 11 controls, it provided an
excellent laboratory to test and evaluate community-based means to educate, reduce,
and control smoking.
Among the important findings are:
A modes decrease in smoking rates in light-to-moderate smokers, especially in
hard-to-read categories of individuals with low eduacational attainment
An impressive accomplishment in community empowerment.
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