The Tobacco Free Nurses' mission is to ensure that the nursing profession is prepared to actively promote health by reducing nurses’ barriers to involvement in tobacco control, including lack of education, smoking among professionals, and lack of nursing leadership. Nurses must be equipped to assist with smoking cessation, prevent tobacco use, and promote strategies to decrease exposure to second hand smoke. The Tobacco Free Nurses initiative accomplishes its mission through:

1) Supporting and assisting smoking cessation efforts of nurses and nursing students;
2) Providing tobacco control resources for use in patient care;
3) Enhancing the culture of nurses as leaders and advocates of a smokefree society.

Tobacco Free Nurses Team

Linda Sarna, RN, DNSc, FAAN
School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles

Stella Aguinaga Bialous, RN, MScN, Dr.PH
President, Tobacco Policy International, San Francisco

Mary Ellen Wewers, RN, MPH, Ph.D, FAAN
College of Nursing, Ohio State University

Erika Froelicher, RN, Ph.D, FAAN
School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco

TNF Brochure

This is the first national initiative focused on providing support for nurses who smoke and establishing a framework for engaging nurses in tobacco use prevention and cessation.

Together with QuitNet we have created a smoking cessation site tailored for nurses and nursing students who want to quit smoking. From this site you can freely access QuitNet's special Nurses section, where you'll find tools and resources you can use to help quit smoking, scientific guides about quitting, expert counselors available to take your questions, and most importantly, other nurses like you who want to quit! Click here to go to our QuitNet entry page and take advantage of your membership sponsored by the Tobacco Free Nurses project.

This web site also has an extensive cessation resources for health professionals section, designed to provide you with smoking cessation information, research, international links, and information about trying to quit.