Project Overview

The American Nurses Association / American Nurses Foundation is a partner with the Robert Wood Johnson-funded Tobacco Free Nurses Initiative. As the largest group of health care professionals, nurses have tremendous potential to effectively implement smoking cessation interventions and advance tobacco use reduction goals proposed by Healthy People 2010. Nurses must be equipped to assist with smoking cessation, prevent tobacco use, and promote strategies to decrease exposure to second hand smoke.

The American Nurses Association / American Nurses Foundation promotes the mission of Tobacco Free Nurses to the nation’s registered nurses through its constituent associations, members, and organizational affiliates.

ANF Tobacco Free Nurses Advisory Committee

• Pamela Hagan, Chief Programs Officer, ANA
• Vernell DeWitty, Program Director, Center for American Nurses
• Terri Roberts, Executive Director, Kansas State Nurses Association
• Jean Ross, Executive Committee, United American Nurses

If the 2.2 million working nurses in the U.S. each helped one person per year quit smoking, nurses would triple the U.S. quit rate.