Make Smoking History Award

Each year, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program present its Make Smoking History Award to an organization that has made a profound, positive impact on the smoking status of Massachusetts residents.   Recipients have demonstrated outstanding leadership and a commitment to tobacco cessation counseling and their use of the QuitWorks program. 

The following are past recipients of the Make Smoking History Award:

  UMass Memorial Health Care - 2010
  Southcoast Hospitals Group - 2009

 UMass Memorial Health Care was recognized for continually being one of the highest annual referrers to the QuitWorks program, with 782 referrals in 2010 alone. UMass Memorial was also recognized for their commitment to creating an atmosphere that promotes quitting through their smoke-free campus initiative across all UMass Memorial locations and partnering with MTCP to offer a Distance Counseling pilot program for outpatients.

Southcoast Hospitals Group was recognized for being the highest referrer to QuitWorks of any health system in the Commonwealth, referring 2,600 patients in just five years. Southcoast was also commended for their commitment to helping people quit for taking its three hospital campuses smoke-free in 2008 and building internal systems to increase routine and systematic identification of tobacco users.