Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation

The Community Intervention Trial for smoking cessation (COMMIT) is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and involves eleven pairs of communities in North America. COMMIT emphasizes a partnership between the eleven research institutions and their respective intervention communities in developing the structures needed to implement the intervention protocol. We summarize the epidemiological data and describe the prior community interventions that set the stage for COMMIT, and discuss how COMMIT may inform state-wide tobacco reduction demonstration programs. An overview of the articles that describe the COMMIT intervention and evaluation plan is presented.

Edward Lictenstein, Lawrence Wallack, Terry Pechacek

Editor's Foreword -- Introduction to the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (Commit) -- Principles of Community Organization and Partnership for Smoking Cessation in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (Commit) -- Media Advocacy and Public Education in the Community Intervention Trial to Reduce Heavy Smoking (Commit) -- Health Care Providers as Key Change Agents in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (Commit) -- Promoting Smoking Control Through Worksites in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) -- Enhancing Resources for Smoking Cessation Through Community Intervention: Commit as a Prototype -- Evaluation Plan for the Community Intervention Trial For Smoking Cessation (Commit) -- Process Evaluation in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (Commit)