TOOL How to Establish a Smoking-Cessation Program

Employees know it: Tobacco use is injurious to the health of smokers and to those around them. And employers also know that such use has an effect on health care costs. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management offers a plethora of resources that employers can use in guiding them on how to establish smoking-cessation programs in the workplace. Click here to read about “Relationship to Health Insurance Reimbursements,” “A Checklist for Assessing a Group Cessation Program,” lists of federal and other organizations that offer information, and more.