Health Professionals
This page reproduces material published by the Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network between 2005 and 2008. Names, roles, partners and funders are as published at that time and do not describe any current relationship, endorsement or funding. Nothing here is medical advice.
Treating
Tobacco Use and Dependence: Clinician's Packet: A How-To Guide
For Implementing the Public Health Service Clinical Practice
Guideline (March 2003)
Published by the U.S. Public Health Service.
Reimbursement
for Smoking Cessation Therapy: A Healthcare Practitioner’s
Guide (2002)
PACT (Professional Assisted Cessation Therapy) developed this
guide to provide information to healthcare providers and their
administrative staffs on how to obtain reimbursement for smoking
cessation counseling.
Tobacco
Cessation Toolkit (2003)
Developed by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP).
Here’s
How You Can Help Your Pregnant Patient Quit Smoking
Available through the National Partnership to Help Pregnant
Smokers Quit.
Smoking
Cessation During Pregnancy: A Clinician's Guide to Helping
Pregnant Women Quit Smoking (February 2003)
This free CME-accredited guide from the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) outlines how to integrate
the "5 A's" into a clinical setting serving pregnant
women.
Helping
Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses (March 2005)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ pocket
guide for nurses.
Practical
Strategies to Help your Patient Quit - Training Manual (October
2002)
Training materials based upon the PHS Guideline from the Center
for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin
Medical School.
Cessation
Resource Center / California
The California Tobacco Control Alliance offers a Health Care
Practitioner's Tool Kit for Smoking Cessation, materials for
implementing "Tobacco as a Vital Sign" in your office,
"You Can Quit Smoking" patient cessation plan in
Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hmong and Laotian, and more.
Health
Care Providers’ Tool Kit for Delivering Smoking Cessation
Services (2003) / California
This California Tobacco Control Alliance manual is for physicians,
medical office personnel and medical group staff. It seeks
to help establish office-based systems to track smoking status,
conduct cessation interventions with patients and refer patients
to additional resources for more intensive assistance in their
quit attempts.
Tobacco
Cessation Guideline / Colorado
The Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative (CCGC) has
developed a resource kit for health care providers that include
information and tools to help their patients quit.
Tobacco
Cessation: The Resources You Need PowerPoint presentation
/ Colorado
Provides an overview of tobacco use, benefits of quitting,
the 5As cessation model and the Colorado Clinical Guidelines
tobacco cessation resource kit "Tobacco Cessation Guideline”
(Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative).
A
Quick Primer…To Counseling Tobacco Cessation / Colorado
This interactive CD-ROM available the Colorado Clinical Guidelines
Collaborative is a training tool for physicians and other
health care providers on counseling patients who use tobacco.
Oral
Health Provider Kit / Colorado
STEPP and the Oral Health Program at the Colorado Department
of Public Health and Environment created an Oral Health Provider
Kit to assist hygienists, dentists and other dental staff
help their patients quit using tobacco.
Prenatal
Smoking Cessation Information and Resources (January 2005)
/ Colorado
For the smoking client and her healthcare provider available
through the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative.
Leading
the Way: Helping Our Patients Be Tobacco Free (2005)
Tobacco control curriculum developed at the Southern Illinois
University Carbondale for dental hygiene educators.
Tobacco
Treatment Quick Clinician Guide (2002) / Maine
All health professionals play an essential role in helping
patients stop tobacco. Most smokers want to quit, and half
of smokers make a serious attempt each year. Without effective
treatments-counseling and medications- long term-success with
quitting is difficult. Produced by the Center for Tobacco
Independence, Maine.
Clinical
Toolkit for Treating Tobacco Dependence / Texas
Toolkit developed by the Texas Department of State Health
Services; includes provider guides, pharmacotherapy guide,
posters, patient materials, etc.
Alliance
for the Prevention and Treatment of Nicotine Addiction / Virginia
Training, consultation and resources are available to healthcare
providers to assist them in implementing evidence-based treatment
of tobacco use and dependence, ranging from brief interventions
to intensive counseling.
Websites:
Ask-Advise-Refer
National Smoking Cessation Initiative
American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA) website provides
toolkit with downloadable materials for dental hygienists.
Center
for Tobacco Research and Intervention
This website offers training materials, including clinician
packets, presentation slides and healthcare provider training
manuals (with video).
Smoking
Cessation Leadership Center
Website offers tools for healthcare providers including a
referral card to the national quitline number, presentations
and posters.
Treatobacco.net
Treatobacco.net provides evidence-based data and practical
support for the treatment of tobacco dependence for physicians,
nurses, pharmacists, dentists, psychologists, researchers,
and policy makers. Treatobacco.net is produced and maintained
by the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, in association
with the World Bank, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
the World Health Organization, the Cochrane Group, and an
international panel of experts.
Publications:
Revell, CC. Schroeder, SA. Simplicity matters: Using system-level changes to encourage clinician intervention in helping tobacco users quit. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2005; Vol 7, Suppl 1:S67-69.
Bentz CJ., et. al. The feasibility of connecting physician offices to a state-level quitline. Am J Prev Med 2006; 30(1);31-37.
Fisher E, Musick J, et. al. Improving clinic and neighborhood-based smoking cessation services within federally qualified health centers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2005; Vol 7, Suppl 1:S45-56.
Published 2005–2008 · Reviewed 10 August 2026