Preventing Cancers by Bringing Evidence-Based Tobacco Use Interventions to Community and Healthcare Centers Across Texas
The mission of Taking Texas Tobacco Free is to promote wellness among Texans by partnering with community and healthcare organizations to build capacity for system-wide, sustainable initiatives that reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure among employees, patients, and visitors.
New Tobacco Dependence: Education and Training
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This training provides healthcare professionals with the training and competence needed to offer brief, evidence-based interventions for tobacco cessation and relapse prevention. Additionally, it offers free Continuing Education credits.
Our Projects
MENTAL HEALTH
SUBSTANCE USE
HOMELESSNESS
TRAINING PROGRAM
HEALTH CENTERS
LUNG CANCER
OPIOID TREATMENT
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LGBTQI+
LGBTQI+
WOMEN-SERVING
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Program Testimonials
I, Twila Gilman, want to thank you for your interest, concern and thoughtfulness to want to help people that want to better their life, health and appearance by stop[ping] smoking. Your caring and generosity is making it possible for people like me that want to stop, but don’t have money to purchase the patch. I never thought I would ever want to stop smoking. The opportunity is here and I’m trying, thanks to you.
- Twila Gilman, Client
Billy T. Cattan Recovery Outreach
When we started the initiative, it was amazing how wrong we were as mental health professionals because many of us have been in this field a long time and we always assumed that our clients didn’t want to stop smoking because they couldn’t or if they did, their symptoms would get worse. We never thought to ask them, and once we realized our clients [were open to quitting] we really just asked them and they did not want to continue smoking. And once we became an instrument to help them, a lot of the clients were quite successful.
– Debra Shedrick, Program Manager
Spindletop Center
EXPLORE OUR RESOURCES
Want to take free online trainings on how to treat tobacco use?
View our Supplemental Training Materials to learn about addressing tobacco for a variety of special populations!
Need some health education materials on quitting smoking for your patients?
Explore our health education materials in our Download Center, available in English, Spanish, Chinese, and more!
Need brief videos packed with practical advice on how to use tobacco cessation medications, address policy violations, and more?
Visit our Trainings Videos page to explore a variety of topics geared toward patients and practitioners!
Explore our TOOLS drop-down menu located at the top of the page for even more free resources!
