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Smoking Cessation
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Mission
As part of the Public Health Strategic Health
Care Group, the Public Health National Prevention
Program is responsible for the development and
oversight of public health policy and clinical
programs for the VA Health Care System relating to
smoking and tobacco use cessation.
VA clinical programs directed towards helping
veterans stop tobacco use currently include
consistent screening for tobacco use during primary
care visits and a wide variety of clinical programs
that range from individual counseling to
participation in evidence-based smoking cessation
specialty clinical programs. A wide variety of
FDA-approved nicotine replacement therapies and
smoking cessation medications are available in the
VHA formulary. The 2004 VA/DoD Clinical Practice
Guidelines on the Management of Tobacco Use also
provide clinical guidance to VHA health care
providers on a menu of evidence-based tobacco use
cessation interventions including brief counseling,
pharmacotherapy, telephone counseling, intensive
treatment, and recommendations for cessation with
specialty populations. The 2004 Guidelines reflect a
population-based approach to tobacco cessation as a
major public health challenge.
The Public Health National Prevention Program has
a technical advisory group that serves to provide
consultation and expert advice on smoking and
tobacco use cessation, models of best practices in
smoking cessation care for veterans populations and
clinical care settings in VHA, and the health
effects of tobacco use and related illnesses. This
advisory group is made up of VA health care
providers representing pulmonology/critical care,
primary care, preventive medicine, and smoking
cessation, mental health, substance use treatment,
as well as administrators, researchers and
educators.
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Program Director
Kim Hamlett-Berry, Ph.D.
Director, Public Health National Prevention Program
Public Health Strategic Health Care Group
kim.hamlett@va.gov
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Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation Technical
Advisory Group
- Dr. Peter Almenoff, Director, VISN 15
- Dr. Timothy Carmody,
San Francisco VA Medical Center
- Dr. Judith Cooney,
Connecticut Veterans Health Care System
- Dr. Steven S. Fu - Minneapolis VA Medical
Center
- Dr. Mark Geraci, Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic
Health Care Group
- Dr. Anne Marie Joseph,
Minneapolis VAMC
- Dr. Daniel Kivlahan, Puget Sound VA Medical Center
- Dr. Laura Kroupa, St. Louis VAMC
- Anna Lythgoe, RN, MSN, VHA Patient Care Services, Primary Care
- Dr. David
Macpherson, Pittsburgh VA Medical Center
- Dr. Miles McFall, Puget Sound VA Medical Center
- Dr. Scott
Sherman, Sepulveda VA Medical Center
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