UCM Approach & Lessons Learned

• Data• Collaboration & Communication• Persistence• Patience

Education & Encouraging Compliance

• Online and paper reporting form• Portable Ash Trays• Third Violations and Plan for Success with Residence Life• Signage/Communication– Stickers on external doors of every building– Press Releases– Website– Video– New residence life mixed use facility

• Willingness to take personal responsibility to educate—Hot Spot Duty

Doing our P.A.R.T.T. to Educate about Tobacco-Free UCM

• Assume the individual does not know UCM is tobacco free, or does not understand the policy.

• Approach with the goal of helping them be compliant in the future.

• Be friendly. Smile. • Use the opportunity to engage with the community.

– Politely Ask—(After introductions) Did you know UCM is now a tobacco free campus?

– Respectfully Teach—Tobacco use is allowed in personal vehicles or on public right of ways.

– Tell—Help the Tobacco Procedures Committee follow up by reporting a hot spot at www.ucmo.edu/tobaccoreport

Notice a Hot Spot or Butt Litter Near Your

Building?

Customizable signs and portable ashtrays are available

HOT SPOT TRACKING

DATA

Qualitative Data

• Since Fall 2013, 59 students and employees have utilized tobacco cessation services and nicotine replacement therapy provided at no cost to them through VSAP. Example success stories:

– 18 year old student, smoking since 6th/7th grade, had already cut down before coming into VSAP. With the assistance of coaching and 2mg nicotine replacement lozenges, he quit smoking completely within a month.

– 53 year old woman, smoking for 40 years cut down to about 7 cigarettes per day and only two cigarettes are during the work day.

– 57 year old man, smoking for 40-45 years cut down from two packs a day to about 10 cigarettes a day and is going to start patches soon to finally reach his goal of being smoke-free.

Hot Spot Data

Semester Total cigarette butts in hot spot locations

Fall 2013 5,103

Spring 2014 2,623

Fall 2014 1,080

Before reading this question I did not know that UCM is a tobacco free campus.

I like the fact that UCM is tobacco free AND this increased my desire to attend UCM.

I like the fact that UCM is tobacco free BUT that had NO impact on my decision to attend UCM.

I do not like the fact that UCM is tobacco free BUT that had NO impact on my decision to attend UCM.

I do not like the fact that UCM is tobacco free AND I considered not attending UCM because of this.

I have no opinion about the fact that UCM is a tobacco free campus.

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UCM is a tobacco free campus. Which of the following best describes you?

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