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Partnerships

• Alaska Native Tribal Heath Consortium
• Breathe Free Alaska
• Breathe Free Gulf Coast
• Breathe Free Mat-Su
• Breathe Free Anchorage
• American Lung Association
• American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
• American Heart Association
• American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation
• CDC Office on Smoking and Health
  
• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

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Program Contacts

3601 C Street, Suite 722
Anchorage AK 99503
Phone: (907) 269-2020
Fax: (907) 269-5446
tobacco@alaska.gov

• Christy Knight
  Program Manager
  (907) 269-0465
• Katie Steffens
  Deputy Program Manager
  (907) 269-1089
• Lori Price
  Public Health Specialist I
  (907) 334-2226
• Bea Pullekines
  Youth Specialist
  (907) 334-5941
• Nicole Peltzer
  Public Health Communication Specialist
  (907) 764-6095
• Kellie Jorgensen
  Tribal Health Liaison
  (907) 727-8994

Webpage updated October 2024

Alaska Tobacco Prevention and Control (TPC) Program - Publications and Resources

Publications older than 25 months can be found on the State of Alaska Library Archives website.

 

Strategic Plan

• Alaska Tobacco Prevention and Control Program Strategic Plan 2018-2022 (1mb)

Alaska Tobacco Facts and Figures

• Alaska Tobacco Facts
  2023 Update (3.2mb)
• Alaska Tobacco Annual Report
  2023 Alaska Tobacco Annual Report (5mb)
  

Other Tobacco Publications

Tobacco Factsheets for Alaska

• Tobacco Facts: Nicotine and Youth Mental Health – What schools can do (2024)
• Tobacco Facts: Tobacco and Alaska Native People
• Tobacco Facts: Tobacco and Diabetes
• Tobacco Facts: Tobacco and Behavioral Health
  
• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

Miscellaneous Publications

• Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Alaskan Households with Children [Rural and Remote Health, 2010]
• Alaska Epi Bulletins related to Tobacco/Smoking

Alaska's Tobacco Quit Line: FREE HELP - enroll by calling 800-QUIT-NOW (784-8669) or visiting alaskaquitline.com

 

Thinking about quitting tobacco? Alaska's Tobacco Quit Line is ready to help. Alaska's Tobacco Quit Line provides free one-on-one telephone, web, and text-based counseling, information on how to quit and referral services seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Current tobacco users are encouraged to use this free resource to help them quit.

To take advantage of this free service, simply call 800-QUIT-NOW (784-8669) or visit the Alaska Quit Line Website »

Quit Line Publications

Publications older than 25 months can be found on the State of Alaska Library Archives website.

Web Coach:

Alaskans looking to quit or to stay quit who enroll by phone or web with Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line can ask for Web Coach, an online program that supports and assists tobacco users throughout the quitting process – from creating a Quitting Plan to learning strategies for staying quit for life.

Text2Quit:

Text2Quit provides a series of interactive text messages that are personalized to a participant’s Quit Plan and sent out over the course of a four month period and allows participants stay engaged with their Quit Coach, use medications correctly, manage urges, and prevent relapse; all from their mobile phones.

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