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Substance Use and Smoking Disparities Resources

Listed below are materials to help people quit smoking including a number of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) materials  and other  smoking-related resources from APA’s Health Disparities Office. The APA Health Disparities Office is partnering with the CDC on their 2016 Tips from Former Smokers Campaign.

Psychology’s Unique Role in Addressing the Opioid Crisis

Psychology’s Unique Role in Addressing the Opioid Crisis

APA offers advocacy resources for psychologists to help address substance use disorders.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Tips from Former Smokers Website

The CDC Tips from Former Smokers Website

Find videos, print materials, social media projects and other resources to help reduce smoking and tobacco use. Also includes free tools and materials for health care providers, faith-based organizations and public health professionals to help people quit smoking.

Smokefree.gov Resources for Health Professionals

Smokefree.gov Resources for Health Professionals

Smokefree.gov is a trusted source for evidence-based smoking cessation tools and content.
Smokefree.gov Mobile Apps

Smokefree.gov Mobile Apps

The QuitGuide app includes a craving tracker tool, and the quitSTART app is for helping teen smokers to quit.
rural landscape

Smoking and Tobacco Use in Rural Populations

Webinar and fact sheet about America's rural population's likeliness to use tobacco, especially smokeless tobacco, and how that population is more heavily impacted by tobacco use.

What's Smoking Got to Do with It? Improving the Health of Priority Populations by Treating Tobacco Use

"What's Smoking Got to Do with It? Improving the Health of Priority Populations by Treating Tobacco Use"

This webinar, co-sponsored by APA and featuring H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, (Santa Clara University and former director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), is about smoking in health-priority populations, including prevalence and risk factors, why professionals may not attend to smoking in these populations and the consequences of not doing so, and effective evidence-based practices.
Carl Hart, PhD

APA Health Disparities Initiative seminar featuring Columbia University psychologist Carl Hart, PhD

"A Critical Analysis of Drug Laws, Interventions and Policy Based on Research and Life Experiences," presented by Carl Hart, PhD, author of "High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society."
Last updated: May 2023Date created: 2016