Your quarterly updates: TLC Corner, Education Corner, and Champion's Corner, along with resources, articles and events!

2022 Tobacco Learning Collaborative Updates

The CA Quits Tobacco Learning Collaborative (TLC) participants have made it halfway through the year! In October, our TLC session will focus on POPULATION: Utilizing Data to Address Care Gaps and Health Equity.

During this session, CA Quits will discuss emerging trends in population health management and addressing health equity in tobacco treatment across multiple sectors. A panel of TLC participants including health systems, a community-based organization, and a Medi-Cal managed care plan will share their experiences in how they use data to identify individuals who use tobacco and what actions they are taking to address tobacco use among their communities.

In December, we end our TLC with CAPSTONE Presentations and each of the TLC participants will share their intervention progress over the year.

For more information about the TLCs, contact Shannon Haggitt: srhaggitt@ucdavis.edu or Moreen Sharma: mmsharma@ucdavis.edu.

Click HERE to see the list of current TLC participants.

Medi-Cal Update

Cindy Vela, CA Quits Plan and Partner Manager, retires after almost 10 years of working hard to advance tobacco cessation treatment to help Californians quit. Cindy kicked off two quarterly CA Quits workgroups in 2018, where workgroup members:

• Accessed resources,
• Shared cross-sector collaboration successes, and
• Explored population health strategies – a partnership with Kick It California to conduct proactive outreach.

Cindy said farewell in the September workgroup meetings with Local Health Department Tobacco Control Program (34 members to date) and Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan (18 members to date) and thanked them for everyone’s ongoing partnership with CA Quits.

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” Henry Ford

• NEW Latino-focused resources from the American Lung Association - Latino Community and Lung Health. 

• The New England Journal of Medicine case vignette about how to treat a patient who smokes (discourages e-cigarettes as not evidence-based) Click here for the article (Research).

• Special Issue, "Tobacco use and treatment among cancer Survivors" highlights current research on tobacco use treatment and cessation among patients across the cancer spectrum (Research).

• (Webinar) UCSF Smoking Cessation Leadership offers 11 Tobacco Cessation-related webinars with FREE CME credit available. Some topics include the stigma of smoking, the homeless population, assisting clients to quit smoking, taking campuses tobacco-free, and re-framing tobacco in the behavioral health population.

• 10/4/22: (Webinar) Unpacking and Counteracting the Tobacco Industry's Deceptive “Harm Reduction” Strategy. Please join CTCP and Jeremiah Mock from the UpEnd Tobacco Project to learn more about what the industry is doing and how to counter their latest strategy of deception.

• 10/11/22: (Webinar) Advancing Health Equity Measurement in Medicaid. Learn how this framework can be leveraged to promote equity in Medicaid and beyond.

• 10/18/22: (Webinar) Unpacking and Counteracting the Tobacco Industry's Deceptive “Harm Reduction” Strategy. Please join CTCP and Jeremiah Mock from the UpEnd Tobacco Project to learn more about what the industry is doing and how to counter their latest strategy of deception.