Surveillance and Evaluation Resources

Guidelines and Resources

• Conducting Quitline Evaluations: A Workbook for Tobacco Control Professionals
  This workbook is designed to help facilitate the development of a quitline evaluation plan.

• Developing an Effective Evaluation Plan
  This workbook is designed to help public health program managers, administrators, and evaluators develop an effective evaluation plan.
• Developing an Effective Evaluation Report
  This workbook is designed to help public health program managers, administrators, and evaluators develop an effective evaluation report.
• Evaluation Toolkit for Smoke-Free Policies
  This toolkit provides approaches to evaluating the effects of state policies and laws that restrict smoking in workplaces and public places.
• Introduction to Process Evaluation in Tobacco Use Prevention and Control
  A guide that defines process evaluation and describes the rationale, benefits, key data collection components, and program evaluation management procedures.
• Preventing Initiation of Tobacco Use: Outcome Indicators for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs-2014
  An updated guide that provides information on 62 preventing initiation outcome indicators to assist with program planning and evaluation.
• Promoting Quitting Among Adults and Young People: Outcome Indicators for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs-2015
  An updated guide that provides information on 46 promoting quitting outcome indicators to assist with program planning and evaluation.
• Eliminating Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: Outcome Indicators for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
  An updated guide that provides information on 38 secondhand smoke outcome indicators to assist with program planning and evaluation.
• Key Outcome Indicators for Evaluating Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
  A guide that provides information on 120 key outcome indicators.
• Surveillance and Evaluation Data Resources for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
  This booklet is an at-a-glance compilation of surveillance and evaluation resources for comprehensive tobacco control programs. It is meant to be used by program managers and evaluators in planning and evaluating tobacco control programs.
• Question Inventory on Tobacco
  A tool that categorizes more than 1,000 tobacco-related questions.
• Cancer Prevention & Early Detection Facts & FiguresExternal
  Facts and figures on tobacco use and tobacco control programs are included in this resource from the American Cancer Society.