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The primary abstract submitter will be notified of the status in late February 2025.

Accepted speakers will receive a discounted rate of $795.

The National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH) is one of the largest, long-standing gatherings for top United States tobacco control professionals. The convening attracts a diversity of public health professionals committed to best practices and policies to reduce tobacco use—the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the United States.

The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) collaborates with government agencies, private foundations, non-profit organizations, and leading researchers to develop a relevant and timely agenda for tobacco control professionals.

Join us on August 26-28, 2025 at the Sheraton Grand Riverwalk in Chicago, Illinois to meet with colleagues from around the country and to learn about best practices and innovations for all aspects of tobacco control.  

If you have questions about the NCTOH, please reach out to the NNPHI planning team at NCTOH@nnphi.org

Submission deadline has passed. 

Submission Tracks

NCTOH welcomes abstracts from researchers and practitioners in ten program tracks:

• Cessation Interventions and Health Systems Transformation
• Communications and Media
• Evaluation and Surveillance
• Health Equity
• Tobacco and Addiction Science
• Non-Cigarette Tobacco and Nicotine Products
• Tobacco Product Regulation
• Tobacco Control Policies and Legal Issues
• Tobacco Industry
• Youth and Young Adults

1. Cessation Interventions and Health Systems Transformation (HST)-- Includes reimbursement and insurance issues; telephone and online quitline services; research focused on innovative methods for delivering cessation services including text-based and social network-based interventions; research on cessation interventions for specific subpopulations, including but not limited to youth and young adults; innovative systems connecting health care and quitline providers; cessation programs in the workplace, health care or other settings; and cessation training programs and certification.
2. Communications and Media (MEDIA)—Includes planning, implementing, and evaluating paid media campaigns; using and evaluating earned media; assessing the relative effectiveness of different media; developing media strategies for rural, urban, and suburban areas; targeting special populations through media; message development; and computer-based communications technologies for small and mass audiences. This includes all media platforms including social media.
3. Evaluation and Surveillance (EVAL) -- Includes conducting and analyzing population-based surveys on tobacco use and its consequences, secondhand smoke exposure and its consequences, and opinions about tobacco use and tobacco control measures; conducting policy surveillance to understand trends in tobacco control laws and sub-regulatory policy measures (e.g., voluntary smoke-free multi-unit housing policies); defining and measuring outcomes to evaluate tobacco control programs or specific interventions; conducting evaluations with limited funding; translating research into practice; developing and disseminating success stories; and publicizing evaluation and surveillance data using a variety of methods and techniques.
4. Health Equity (EQUITY)-- Includes increasing diversity in the tobacco control movement; encouraging partnerships and involvement of different population groups based on socially determined circumstances and characteristics such as race or ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, age, behavioral health (mental illness and substance abuse disorders), disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, geographic location, or other characteristics linked to exclusion or discrimination that are known to influence health status.
5. Tobacco and Addiction Science (TAS) – Includes research related to tobacco and nicotine, including synthetic nicotine, addiction; research on the establishment or progression of nicotine dependence and addiction; research related to the development of new pharmacologic treatments for nicotine dependence; research on addictiveness and reinforcing effects related to nicotine and other components in tobacco products; and addressing nicotine addiction and comorbid physical and mental conditions.
6. Non-Cigarette Tobacco and Nicotine Products (NCO) – Includes research examining non-cigarette products, including smokeless tobacco, oral nicotine products, electronic nicotine delivery devices (ENDS), cannabis, and other products. Examples include prevention strategies, industry strategies, (e.g., sponsorships, co-branding of products, etc.) and harm reduction methods.
7. Tobacco Product Regulation (REG)-- Includes tobacco product standards; new tobacco products (including modified risk products); promotion, marketing, and advertising of tobacco products; reporting of products, ingredients, and constituents; research and evaluation efforts; compliance and enforcement activities and strategies; health education; requirements for manufacturers and retailers; and respective roles of federal, state, and local tobacco regulatory agencies.
8. Tobacco Control Policies and Legal Issues (POLI)
   1. Legal Issues (LEGAL): Includes litigation; legal challenges to tobacco control policies; and legal strategies to achieve tobacco control policies.
   2. Policies (POLI): Includes research on or studies of developing, enacting, promoting and enforcing tobacco control policies. Examples include clean air regulations; youth access restrictions and minimum age of sale laws; price increases on tobacco products; retail density and placement issues; and restrictions on the promotion and marketing of tobacco products. This section will also include sessions on educating stakeholders on the need for sustained funding for tobacco control programs. 
9. Tobacco Industry (INDST) -- Includes current strategies of tobacco and ENDS industries and all companies promoting various tobacco products; historical industry information; industry marketing campaigns; and all areas related to industry documents.
10. Youth and Young Adults (YOUTH) -- Includes youth advocacy campaigns and initiatives; school-based tobacco prevention programs; programs to counter tobacco advertising aimed at youth; developing youth outreach and inclusion elements in advocacy campaigns and other interventions to prevent youth and young adults from starting to smoke or vape.

Presentation Formats

Presentation Formats: Abstracts will be accepted for presentation in one of three (3) formats:

• Panel Presentation: Panel Presentations should be designed to be full 75-minute panels with one single abstract, topic, and focus.  Generally, panels include 3-4 speakers.  Proposed speakers for a Panel Presentation may also submit proposals on the same topic as Individual Presentations.  Proposed Panel Presentations will be accepted or rejected as-is; they will not be merged with any other proposed abstracts.  Abstracts not accepted as panel presentations may be offered space as poster Presentations.
• Individual Presentation: Individual Presentations should be designed as a 20-minute presentation by a single speaker on a single topic.  Accepted proposals will be matched with similar abstracts to fill a 75-minute session.  Abstracts not accepted as an Individual Presentation may be offered space as a Poster Presentation.
• Poster: Poster sessions will be held on Day 1 and Day 2 of the NCTOH. Poster presenters will be assigned a poster board and asked to bring and hang their posters in their assigned space. Poster presenters will be asked to attend their poster for one hour during the poster reception to interact with attendees and answer questions. Poster presenters may use any poster design they would like, including previously presented posters, as long as they can be hung on a standard posterboard (48” by 36” with horizontal orientation). Poster presenters are responsible for printing their posters and shipping or transporting their posters to the conference.

Submission Process and Review

You will be asked to provide the following information via the abstract submission process:

• Primary Presenter information (name, credentials, contact information, title, organization)
• Session title (250-character limit)
• Session abstract (5000-character limit)
• Session description for online agenda(1000-character limit)
• Session learning objectives: 3 learning objectives, 300-character limit

All abstracts must be received by Friday, November 15, 2024, at 11:59 pm ET.

All abstracts must be submitted online. Hard-copy abstract submissions will not be accepted. Abstracts can be updated until the submission deadline.

Once the abstract deadline has closed, each abstract will be assigned to reviewers of advisory committee members, NNPHI staff, and partners, who will review it for completeness and appropriateness for NCTOH 2025. The primary abstract submitter will be notified of the status in late February 2025.

PLEASE NOTE: Submitting an abstract does not constitute registration for NCTOH 2025. Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to register for the meeting and pay a meeting registration fee of $795. Registration is now OPEN.

If you have questions about the NCTOH, please reach out to the NNPHI planning team at NCTOH@nnphi.org

Submission Deadline:
Friday, November 15, 2024, at 11:59 pm ET.

Notifications: February 2025

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