Script for quitting an application when switching users?

Is there any way to create an applescript that will quit iTunes for me when I switch users?
I have my computer set up with two users, one for work and one for "play". I use iTunes in both users and they both use the same library. Because of this, iTunes cannot be open and functioning on both users at the same time. Since I regularly switch between the two (perhaps more than I should), I need to quit iTunes to use it in the other user. However, I often forget and have to switch back to the previous user in order to quit the program... which is pretty annoying.

Hm, you can trigger script's on login & logout, but it does not seem to be possible to do this on a fast-user-switch....
So trigger the fast-user-switch itself and quit iTunes within this process:
tell application "iTunes" to quit
do shell script "'/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession' -suspend"

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