Promoting Smoking Control Through Worksites in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT)

This article describes the worksite intervention and assessment aspects of the COMMIT project. Following a brief review of the rationale for worksite smoking control efforts and how planning for such activities can be conducted as part of community-based interventions, we describe the COMMIT worksite protocol. All intervention communities conduct specified activities in the areas of smoking policy, motivational and incentive procedures to encourage smoking cessation, and provision of self-help materials and cessation services for employees. Assessment procedures include a computerized process objectives system, surveys of worksites in each of the 22 COMMIT communities, and work related questions on surveys of community residents. Baseline data that have informed the process objectives for the worksite channel are presented, as are examples of how intervention activities have been tailored to different communities.