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Best Practices
RWJBarnabas Health
Activity and Exercise at Work
RWJBarnabas Health encourages exercise by rewarding employees for participating in activities and/or joining a Fitness center. To help reinforce this message, we have 5 affiliated Fitness and Wellness Centers and 3 onsite fitness centers in our system. Discounted rates are also offered for these and other commercial centers throughout New Jersey. We have a running club, Golf Club and Swimming club. Our sites sponsor stair climbing and walking challenges throughout the year and employees are rewarded for participating.
Articles of Interest
MedPage Today
Kansas Health Institute
Research & Evidence
Meeting Library, ASCO University
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Brochures/Reference
Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Nearly one-half million Americans still die prematurely from tobacco use each year, and more than 16 million Americans suffer from a disease caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 42.1 million U.S. adults currently smoke cigarettes. And the harmful effects of smoking do not end with the smoker. Secondhand smoke exposure causes serious disease and death, and even brief exposure can be harmful to health. Each year, primarily because of exposure to secondhand smoke, an estimated 7,330 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer and more than 33,900 die of heart disease. Coupled with this enormous health toll is the significant economic burden. Economic costs attributable to smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke now approach $300 billion annually.
Executive Order prohibiting the use of electronic cigarette or vaping device on any and all properties owned, leased or contracted for use by the State of Oklahoma, including but not limited to all buildings, land and vehicles owned, leased or contracted for use by agencies or instrumentalities of the State of Oklahoma.
A resource designed to help college students adopt and implement a 100% tobacco-free campus policy
This guide is designed to assist with the creation of effective and enforceable tobacco-free policies for higher-education institutions.
Amending Executive Order D 0036 90 Regarding Smoking in State Buildings and Further Directing State Agencies to Take Action to Limit the Use of Tobacco Products, Vaping
Products, and E-Cigarettes by Youth
External Resources
American Cancer Society
The Global Smokefree Worksite Challenge (GSWC) was a global, multi-sector initiative for employers to make their worksites smoke-free or completely tobacco-free. The GSWC assisted employers in establishing smoke-free worksites and broadening their policies to establish completely tobacco-free campuses when appropriate. The Global Smoke-free Worksite Challenge was launched as a Clinton Global Initiative ‘Commitment to Action,’ concurrently with the United Nations High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases in September 2011.
After the initiative came to an end in 2016, the Society committed to ensuring the availability of the high-quality tools developed over the years. These tools are available below.
Peers Against Tobacco
Welcome to Peers Against Tobacco: a peer-led initiative to eradicate tobacco use on college campuses across Texas. We’re here to help you educate your fellow students about the dangers of all forms of tobacco use.
U.S. Surgeon General
The facts on e-cigarette use among youth and young adults.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
nyone interested in comprehensive state tobacco control cessation activities will find links to a collection of guides and documents that focus on cessation topics, such as interventions, clinical treatments for tobacco dependence, insurance coverage, and more.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
People with mental and substance use disorders:
- Are approximately twice as likely as the general population to smoke cigarettes
- Are more likely to die from smoking-related illness than from their mental and substance use disorders (i.e. behavioral health conditions) and
- Want to quit smoking and are able to do so successfully, which both reduces their risk of developing smoking-related diseases and may also improve their behavioral health outcomes.