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Tobacco Cessation
Create a tobacco-free workplace
Tobacco isn’t just bad for your employees’ health — it can also affect the health of your business. Creating a tobacco-free campus policy is a proven way to invest in the health of your employees and protect your bottom line. With the right resources, you can help employees kick the tobacco habit and embrace a healthy lifestyle.
Take the first step to a tobacco-free workplace
With our Tobacco-Free Campus Toolkit, you get resources to make your work environment tobacco free and improve the health of your employees and your business. The full interactive toolkit is available for download below.
Due to the pandemic, some of the tips and tools provided in this kit may not align with CDC-recommended safety guidelines for COVID-19 prevention. For additional information, please visit cdc.gov.
Identify opportunities for healthy changes
What to do
- Get commitment from leadership.
- Recruit employees and form a tobacco-free committee that will oversee your program.
- Set a kickoff date for your policy implementation.
- Gather baseline data on your employees for comparison after program implementation. Some ideas:
- tobacco usage rates
- absenteeism/sick days
- employee morale and attitudes about working for your organization
Tip
- Involve your legal team and any union or employee representatives early in the planning process.
Tools and resources
- Find data to support your plan on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Smoking and Tobacco Use website external link.
- Learn how to form your own wellness committee with our Wellness Committee Toolkit.
- Create your own free surveys with SurveyMonkey external link or Google external link.
- Use our employee health interest survey to gauge employee interest in wellness programs.
- Have your employees with Kaiser Permanente coverage take our Total Health Assessment. external link
- Employee health reports might be available to you. Contact your Kaiser Permanente representative for more information.
Get started with the Tobacco-Free Campus Toolkit
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Healthy lifestyle programs are available to members in all regions except Washington.
DID YOU KNOW
— Aldana, wellsteps.com, January 2, 2020.