• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS) Educational Materials
• Office of the Surgeon General Tobacco Cessation Guideline
• TeenQuit.com
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Healthfinder.gov

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/index.htm

This site includes health reports from the Surgeon General’s office from the 1960s to present day, relating to smoking and health More than 40 years ago, on January 11, 1964, Luther L. Terry, M.D., Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, released the report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. That landmark document, now referred to as the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, was America's first widely publicized official recognition that cigarette smoking is a cause of cancer and other serious diseases.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS) Educational Materials
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/edumat.htm

The Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) is a division within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), which is one of the centers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, causing more than 440,000 deaths each year and resulting in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs. Nationally, smoking results in more than 5.6 million years of potential life lost each year. This OSH is responsible for the content for Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS).

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Office of the Surgeon General Tobacco Cessation Guideline
www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/default.htm

This government Web site presents the latest drugs and counseling techniques for treating tobacco use and dependence.

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TeenQuit.com
www.teenquit.com/

This is a free site with a multitude of resources to help teens quit smoking. The Web site is based on a program - Adolescent Smoking Cessation Escaping Nicotine and Tobacco (ASCENT), which is a comprehensive stop smoking program for teens. ASCENT is school-based, fun, and effective. The six-session curriculum is based on research and the Stages of Change model. This model demonstrates a teen's progression to ending tobacco use. The goal is to motivate teens to move into Stage 3 (getting ready to quit) and hopefully to quit by the end of the program. Identifying which stage participants are in will be repeated each week and will demonstrate the group's progression through the Stages to Quit Smoking.

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USDHHS: Healthfinder.gov
www.healthfinder.gov/

Healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies. Since 1997, Healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. Healthfinder® links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,700 health-related organizations.