Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death and illness.
There are 37.8 million current smokers in the U.S., and 70% say that they would like to quit, but without assistance, less than 5% are able to stop smoking.
Our mission at the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) is to decrease smoking rates and increase the number of health professionals who help smokers quit.
Over the last 17 years, SCLC has helped save numerous lives by leading smoking-cessation education and advocacy efforts across the country.
We aim to drive health systems transformation and deliver sustainable solutions through providing technical assistance, organizing leadership summits, social marketing, bringing together catalytic leaders, and producing national webinars for education. We develop synergistic partnerships for results and have established over 100 partnerships with dental hygienists, nurses, pharmacists, emergency physicians, hospitals, family physicians, mental health and substance abuse providers, advocates, and leadership.
SCLC is a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and also receives significant funding from Truth Initiative to work with the behavioral health population.
The SCLC team looks forward to the next decade of working collaboratively on cessation efforts with priority populations, developing new alliances, identifying new evidence-based practices and resources, and giving a voice to champions.
For more information about SCLC, read "The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center: A Progress Report," by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.