Overview of Case Managed Approach to Tobacco Cessation Help for Leaders

  The select team of the sponsoring organization is oriented by FrameWork Health staff in a community conference session or by a conference audio/visual call in approximately 3 hours to learn about the system of intervention, allow opportunity for discussion and concerns, and set the wheels in motion for almost immediate roll-out of a carefully crafted program. There is a downloadable manual for the team members on this website and all the guidance you will need. It fits within the parameters of quality mentored health behavior change that allows self-determination and control over the cessation process augmented by a strong follow-up support component. The education and the social integration learned and achieved in the cessation program will benefit families and community.  We want to team up with you to accomplish that! 

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    Linda Royer of FrameWork Health has developed a method to facilitate successful cessation using a combination of:

1. Assessment Interview using a standard tool crafted for CMATCH, titled Tobacco Cessation Assessment Tool, in which strengths and weakness in the areas of history, tobacco use intensity, health beliefs and values, perception of stress and response to it, the concept of personal power and confidence, determination of readiness, learning style, and degree of social support present in the individual are identified. By this, readiness and placement in the program are obtained and benchmarks are set.

2. A self-help wholistic tobacco cessation program, Taking Control, applying audio and visual guidance, and projected free, in eBook format, from this website . 

3. Carefully scripted, scheduled motivational telephone coaching by carefully prepared individuals.

4. Social engagement in strategically scheduled group meetings in workshop format for supportive health education and the development of mentoring relationships.  

CMATCH is designed to be offered in a variety of circumstances or preferences:

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When social distancing is necessary, participants can attend with Workshop leaders on internet-based group meeting software, such as Zoom, where teaching and discussion can build support and accountability can be assessed.  The individual coaching of Taking  Control and follow-up telephone coaching is already designed for distance.

Limited Person-Person Meetings

Workshops can be planned for facility accommodations that support social distancing and masks in sequential timing through the day or evening.  The presentation materials can still be viewed and the self-study materials are downloadable from the website.

See Tobacco-Induced Diseases -- a scientific journal

Target Populations: General Adults, including Smoking Mothers; with or without insurance; Individuals with tobacco-related unhealthy conditions; English speakers (or with accompanying translator). 

Purpose: To provide a community-based program that offers periodic and regular group learning and peer support while engaging participants in individualized staged intervention toward tobacco cessation.

Method Design

1. Attract 10-20 intervention-seeking tobacco users through referral from a neighbor/friend/family member or health professionals. Register them by means of a thorough tobacco-related history interview by phone and in the TCAT survey, where their  Stage of Readiness (Prochaska & DiClemente) is determined.

• For Determination and Action groups, register them for next round of CMATCH.
• For Contemplators, provide motivational materials, use motivational interview technique, invite them to the group session called “Let's Begin to Quit” and an invitation to attend the Graduation Celebration Banquet to attract more interest.

2. For those who are Ready for Action, Invite them to the First Workshop Meeting: In a neutral location for 1 ½ hours for orientation using the following tools and procedures:

   a. Program overview

   b. Individualized assessments

   c. Identification of Stage of Change

   d. Utilization of FRAMES - Motivational Interview process

   e. Presentation on current intervention theory and practice

   f.  Schedule the following activity plan for those in the Determination or Action Stage

3. Enroll them in Taking Control to participants with orientation to the website course

4. Set up telephone support schedule with participants

Telephone support calls begin according to mutually determined schedule, planned quit day, and societal conditions for gatherings. Written scripts guide facilitators; a Progress Pathway and Summary of observed concerns guide progressive proactive phone calls. Relationship grows into a mentoring one over at least 1 year with early calls scheduled according to known periods of need (from research) more frequently and occurring at farther intervals over time.

5. Schedule a Vegetarian Potluck meal and motivating movie for end of 1st month.  Food is provided by the sponsoring organization.

6. Schedule Vegetarian Celebration Banquet for end of 2nd month. Food is provided by the sponsoring organization with recipes and an invitation to a follow-up Vegetarian Cooking Class.

   a. Award Ceremony

   b. Testimonies

   c. Contemplators invited to motivate them to Action

   d. New registrants invited to join celebration

7.  Submit report on this cohort at 1 month and 6 months via the Form on the Contact page.

8.  Start new cohorts on a 3-4 month  rotation

Are you ready to Register for Orientation?  Good! Click the button in the column to the right to Register.

There is a comprehensive portfolio of aids to conducting a successful CMATCH intervention in nicotine addiction recovery on the Leaders Resources page.

First, we ask you to Register your name and that of your group and how we might contact the leader(s) as well as be available to assist in any way we can. By clicking the button below you will be taken to the Registration Form on the Contact Page.  Then you may proceed  to the Leader's Resource Page (link in menu above).

You will not be on your own in this endeavor . . . we provide orientation and training with the materials on this site.  Once you register, we will arrange with you the details for that.

Thank you for your interest, enthusiasm, andcooperation

"If tobacco products were introduced to the market today, they would never satisfy any of the regulatory processes now in place to protect consumers, and they would not be sold freely.  Now that we know the harm tobacco causes, our response must match the magnitude of the problem."   

Laurent Huber, Exec. Director of Action on Smoking and Health (www.ash.org)

The cost for Workshop activity will be borne by the sponsoring community organization for: 

• meeting space, 
• time in training the team and mentors,
• hospitality items, 
• food, 
• handout materials, awards, etc.

Framework Health provides the website course and its downloadable handouts and  bears the cost of internet fees, telephone service and coaching software, and administration of CMATCH.

Phone Coaching services by FrameWork Health staff  is negotiable with the sponsor and would be dependent on number of participants for coaching. An alternative is attending a coach training session delivered on Zoom.

Sponsoring organizations are asked to donate for each event they hold; $150-200 is suggested. Fundraising efforts will be ongoing.  

The donation can be made through PayPal by going to the About Us page.