Quitting Tobacco: Handling Cravings... Without Smoking
As a smoker, you are used to having a certain level of nicotine in your body. When you quit, cravings develop when the body wants more nicotine. Here are ways to deal with those cravings.

The Health Consequences of Smoking, Surgeon General's Report 2004-Animated Effects and Illustrations
This interactive animation outlines the effects of smoking on the different organs of the body based on the findings of the 2004 Surgeon General's Report.

Smoke or Smokeless, Tobacco Habits are Nothing to Smile About
Most people are aware of smoking as a risk factor for many serious systemic conditions including cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, low birth weight babies of smoking mothers, and cancer. Despite the ill-health risk associated with...

Five Facts About Smoking
If you smoke, you are being taken for all you've got -- your money and your health. Click here for five facts that ought to make you want to kick tobacco.

Facts for You: Women and Tobacco Use
Highlights of the health effects of tobacco on women prepared by American Legacy Foundation.

InfoFacts: Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products
Facts on cigarettes and other nicotine products by the National Institute on Drugs.

USACHPPM Tobacco Cessation Program
Heath educators: This program contains all the components needed to conduct a six-week tobacco cessation program at your installation.

CHPPM Gets Top Poster Award at TRICARE National Conference (pdf - 3,660KB)
By Ann Ham - USACHPPM Public Affairs

A CHPPM poster presentation entitled, "US Army Toolkit for the Great American Smokeout 2003," won the top award in the Healthcare Innovation Poster Competition Readiness category at the recent TRICARE National Conference in Washington, D.C.

The award was presented to CHPPM by Dr. David Tornberg, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Clinical and Program Policy and TRICARE Management Activity Chief Medical Officer. The poster displayed articles and graphics furnished by the CHPPM Directorate of Health Promotion and Wellness to the Army Medical Command to promote the Great American Smokeout 2003. Brad Taft, CPT Justin Curry and Joyce Kopatch, collaborated on the research, development, design and production of the award-winning poster.

The CHPPM DHPW staff regularly provides health and wellness information to Army publications and Web sites through their research and health promotion efforts.

Healthy People 2010
Decreasing tobacco use is one objective of Healthy People 2010, a national health promotion and disease prevention initiative that aims to improve the health of all Americans.

Reducing Cigarette Smoking and Tobacco Use
Military leaders can and should encourage recruits and enlisted members to stop using tobacco (or better yet, not to start). Education is the key.

Tobacco Cessation and the DoD/VA
Tobacco-related diseases are the most expensive medical problem treated in VA facilities. This PowerPoint presentation discusses tobacco use issues facing the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.