Calls to Quitline Hit Record High After CDC National Tobacco Ad Campaign Launch

by Gary Kopycinski on April 3, 2012

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Tips from Former Smokers campaign shows real lives and bodies damaged by tobacco

Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2012. Two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Tips from Former Smokers campaign, calls to the 1-800-QUIT-NOW quitline have more than doubled.

Call volume rose from 14,437 calls for the period Monday, March 12 – Sunday, March 18, to 33,262 calls for the period Monday, March 19 – Sunday, March 25, and a record…