From the Project Director

Welcome to the professional support website for MyLastDip.com – a federally-funded Internet-based smokeless tobacco cessation project specifically designed for youth aged 14-25.

Smokeless tobacco use represents an important – and often-overlooked – public health problem. Most of the approximately 12 million chewers in the U.S. want to quit but they have few resources available for them to use to get help. This situation is even more difficult for youth who chew as very few cessation programs have been designed specifically with them in mind.

The MyLastDip research project will be launched in the fall of this year. This schedule gives us the opportunity to share our plans now with individuals and organizations that can help make this project a success.

You can help ensure the success of MyLastDip by spreading the news with colleagues that you think would be interested. We ask that you share your name, e-mail, and other contact information with us so that you can receive progress updates over the next weeks and months along with brief reports about how you can become involved as part of the MyLastDip support team.

I invite you to explore this website, and we hope you will seriously consider becoming involved so that MyLastDip will be an important source of help to youthful chewers now and into the future.

Herbert H. Severson, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist 
Oregon Research Institute