Tobacco Cessation Programs
Tobacco Cessation Services
Tobacco Cessation Medications (FDA approved)
Tobacco Cessation Medication Manufacturers
Tools You Can Use - For Clinicians/Providers
Tools You Can Use - For Employers
Tools You Can Use - For Insurers/Managed Care
Tools You Can Use - For State Medicaid Programs
Cessation Certification & Training
Health Literacy Checklist
Tobacco Cessation Programs
1-800-QuitNow
1-800-QuitNow is a free telephone service that will link callers to a trained quit coach in their area to help them quit tobacco.
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care
Program that promotes the integration of effective smoking cessation interventions into the basic health care provided by managed care organizations.
Become an EX
A national campaign launched in 2008 by the National Alliance for Tobacco Cessation. Smokers can create personalized quit plans.
California Tobacco Control Alliance
A California statewide coalition working to reduce tobacco use through collaboration with traditional tobacco control constituencies and inclusion of partners not traditionally associated with tobacco control.
ChewFree.com
A research study funded by the National Cancer Institute and led
by the Oregon Research Institute offering assistance to smokeless
tobacco users. Participants receive quitting assistance and are
asked to complete research questionnaires on-line to help evaluate
the program.
Great Start
A free program for pregnant smokers who want to quit sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation.
Helping Young Smokers Quit
The Helping Young Smokers Quit initiative is a two-phase project that addresses the critical need to disseminate effective, developmentally appropriate cessation programs for adolescent smokers.
National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit
A coalition of diverse organizations joining forces to improve the health of this and future generations by increasing the number of pregnant smokers who quit.
North American Quitline Consortium
A collaborative of quitline professionals from health departments, service providers, researchers, and national organizations in the United States and Canada working together to increase access to and the effectiveness of quitline services that help people in their attempts to quit smoking.
Free & Clear QuitForLifeTM Program
The national leader in phone-based tobacco dependence treatment, Free & Clear, Inc. helps employers, health plans and government agencies address tobacco use in their respective organizations.
Pacific Center on Health & Tobacco
A five-state coalition of agencies and state health departments working to implement comprehensive tobacco cessation programs in their own states and collaborating to provide the support and technical assistance needed for other states to design and implement effective programs.
Professional Assisted Cessation Therapy
An independent consortium of smoking cessation therapy professionals working to lower barriers to broader utilization of treatment through education and advocacy.
Quit Tobacco - Make Everyone Proud
A Department of Defense-sponsored tobacco cessation and education campaign to help active-duty U.S. servicemen and women between the ages of 18 and 25 quit tobacco.
QuitNet
A web-based cessation program operated in association with Boston University's School of Public Health.
Save Our Daughters
A campaign sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids that aims to remove smoking and tobacco from movies in an effort to reduce tobacco use among women and girls.
Smokefree Families
A program dedicated to innovations to stop smoking during and beyond pregnancy.
Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
A national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at the University of California, San Francisco with a mission to raise the number of health professionals and health care institutions that successfully help their patients to quit smoking.
Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network
Formed as the result of two multi-state collaborations from 2000-2005, the TCLN seeks to help increase the capacity in every state to establish effective cessation services.
Tobacco Free Nurses
An initiative focused on helping nurses to stop smoking funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Tobacco Cessation Services
American Cancer Society: Tobacco and Cancer
This web page, part of www.cancer.org, provides tips for quitting smoking and explains the Great American Smokeout.
American Lung Association: Tobacco Control
Offers general information about quitting smoking and tobacco control as well as specific information for women and teens.
CDC Media Campaign Resource Center – Cessation Ads
A product of the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, the Media Campaign Resource Center is a database of hundreds of licensed advertisements developed by a number of state and federal agencies. They are available for use by other states, organizations and government agencies. This link takes you to the 100 cessation ads currently in the database.
CDC Smoking & Tobacco Use: Quit Smoking
Hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this web page offers tips on how to quit, links to reports from the Surgeon General, research, data, and reports, and educational materials.
Proyecto Vida: Latino Deje de Fumar
A project that developed language and culturally sensitive services to help members of the Hispanic community quit smoking. From the Tobacco Dependence Program (TDP) through a grant from RWJF.
Smokefree.gov
Online resource with tools, information, and support that have been effective in helping smokers quit, including state and national resources, free materials, and the best quitting advice the National Cancer Institute and its partners have to offer.
Smoking Cessation, Quality of Life and Older Persons
Provides information on tobacco use cessation, links to a wide variety of articles, bibliographies, and other resources provided by the National Center for Tobacco-Free Older Persons, The Center for Social Gerontology.
Treatobacco.net
An essential resource for anyone working on the treatment of tobacco dependence throughout the world, especially for those interested in evidence-based information.
Try to Stop
A resource for smokers interested in quitting sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Health.
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Tobacco Cessation Medications (FDA approved)
Nicotine Replacement Therapies:
Nicorette® (gum)
Nicoderm® (patch)
Habitrol® (patch)
Prostep® (patch)
Nicotrol® (inhaler and nasal spray)
Commit® (lozenge)
Bupropion SR® (sustained release)
Wellbutrin® (pill)
Zyban® (pill)
ChantixTM (pill) FDA Fact Sheet PDF
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Tobacco Cessation Medication Manufacturers
GlaxoSmithKline (Commit®, Nicorette®, Nicoderm®, Wellbutrin®, Zyban®)
Novartis (Habitrol®)
Pfizer (Nicotrol®)
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Tools
You Can Use - For Clinicians/Providers
Alliance
for the Prevention and Treatment of Nicotine Addiction
A toolkit for use when educating healthcare providers on implementating
the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Assessing Tobacco
Use Documentation Forms
These forms were used by The National Partnership for Smoke-Free
Families research project grantees to obtain standardized measures
of smoking status and other information on study subjects. The
series includes a core baseline assessment form, a core screening
form, an end-of-pregnancy assessment form, and a core postpartum
assessment form.
Clinician's Packet: A How To Guide for Implementing the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines
A how-to guide for implementing the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. It contains information about developing a system, advising patients, special populations, and reimbursement; and products for clinicians and consumers.
Five A's Intervention Record Documentation Form
These patient chart forms are used by state demonstration projects
to collect information on provider delivery of the 5 A's. There
are provider-administered
and patient-administered
versions, both including prenatal and postnatal versions.
How
Health Care Professionals Can Help Pregnant Smokers Quit
This one-page handout developed by The National Partnership for Smoke-Free Families describes the 5 A's intervention for pregnant women.
Key Points to Help Dispel the Myths about Nicotine and NRT
Developed to ensure that cessation information and communications contain accurate information on nicotine and its role in quitting smoking.
Leading the Way: Helping Our Patients Be Tobacco Free
A carefully researched and developed comprehensive tobacco control curriculum available to dental hygiene faculty at no charge. Includes a faculty guide, six training modules, and a useful toolbox.
Maine Prenatal Collaborative Tobacco Treatment Database
This sample MicroSoft Access® database from the Maine Prenatal Collaborative contains screens for documenting delivery of the 5 A's and additional patient / provider information.
Need Help Putting Out That Cigarette? Booklet
This 15-page self-help booklet from the American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists and the National Partnership for Smoke-Free Families
is designed especially for pregnant women to guide them in their
cessation efforts. A Spanish
version is also available.
Organizational
Capacity for Prenatal Tobacco Treatment Survey Instrument
This 28-item questionnaire is based on the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care tool for measuring the level of organizational support for prenatal tobacco treatment.
Post-Partum Relapse Prevention Telephone Protocol
This tool provides a detailed counseling protocol designed for quit coaches and other providers who want to address post-partum relapse. Consists of scripts and a worksheet on basic counseling principles.
Pregnancy and Post-Partum Quitline Toolkit
This toolkit provides information specific to quitting during
pregnancy that can be integrated into already existing quitline
services.
Pregnant and Smoking? Office Poster
This poster is designed to encourage women to ask their provider for assistance in quitting smoking.
Pregnant and Smoking? Office Poster (Native American version)
This poster is designed to encourage women to ask their provider for assistance in quitting smoking. This version features a Native American family.
Provider Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Survey Instrument
This survey instrument provides an assessment of provider knowledge, attitudes and behaviors regarding the 5 A's. It can be used before and after quality improvement activities to promote the best practice intervention.
Reimbursement for Smoking Cessation Therapy: A Healthcare Practitioner’s Guide Download PDF
Developed to provide information to healthcare providers and their administrative staffs on how to obtain reimbursement for smoking cessation counseling. This guide contains advice for providers who wish to maximize benefits for smoking cessation, navigate around coverage deficiencies, and advocate effectively for adequate coverage.
Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy: A Clinician's Guide to Helping Pregnant Women Quit Smoking Order Form
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has
produced a training manual called "Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy:
A Clinician's Guide to Helping Pregnant Women Quit Smoking." This
educational program provides the background and tools necessary
for clinicians to implement evidence-based interventions in the
office setting.
Smoking History Survey for Pregnant Women Documentation Form
This standardized form contains a short, three section survey on a pregnant woman's smoking status, history of tobacco use, and second-hand smoke exposure.
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline (USPHS, 2008) Download PDF
This guideline, an updated version of the 2000 Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline, presents recommendations for treatment of tobacco use based upon a systematic literature review and analysis, peer-review process and expert panel opinion.
You Can Quit Smoking! Bookmark
This bookmark for the pregnant mother-to-be provides information on why she should quit smoking and how to keep on track with a quit plan.
With Help From Your Doctor Office Poster
This poster was created for provider offices with the tagline "With
help from your doctor, you could quit smoking by your next visit".
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Tools You Can Use - For Employers
Helping a Pregnant Woman Quit Smoking: Community and Worksite Toolkit
A toolkit for employers which contains materials that can help pregnant women quit smoking and explains the importance of support from the work place, community, friends, and family.
Employers’ Smoking Cessation Guide: Practical Approaches to a Costly Workplace Problem Download PDF
Developed as a tool to help employers – large and small – enact affordable, effective smoking cessation programs in their companies. This guide makes the “business case” for employer involvement in smoking cessation, highlighting the enormous direct and indirect costs—both in health care and lost productivity—of smoking.
Health Insurance Benefits
At-a-glance summary from the "Build a Financial Infrastructure."
This summary is intended to help guide discussions among employers
and purchasers and can be tailored to each state.
Healthy
Workforce 2010: An Essential Health Promotion Sourcebook for Employers,
Large and Small
This Partnership for Prevention publication designed for employers presents a set of national health objectives, with 10-year targets. The goal is to help explain objectives to employers so they can work on helping the nation achieve these targets.
Make it Your Business: Insure a tobacco-free workforce Employer’s Toolkit Download PDF
Developed by the Tobacco-free Coalition of Oregon, this employer’s toolkit makes the case for providing cessation benefits or services to Oregon employees and provides tools to help promote them.
Preventive Services: Helping Employers Expand Coverage
Download PDF
Developed by the Partnership for Prevention, this guide provides employers with information on return-on-investment data, health research and various health plans. The goal is to give employers the information they need to provide quality health coverage at a reasonable cost.
Sample Purchasing Specifications Related to Tobacco-Use Prevalence and Cessation Download PDF
This document sets forth illustrative language for the purchase of tobacco-use prevention and cessation services from managed care organizations by state agencies administering Medicaid, other state agencies and other managed care purchasers.
Tobacco Cessation at the Worksite
A tobacco cessation toolkit for employers that provides information on how and why to implement a smoke-free policy and invest time and money to help employees quit smoking. Developed by the Colorado Business Group on Health and the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative.
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Tools You Can Use - For Insurers/Managed Care
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care: A Resource Guide to Health Plans Download PDF
This guide provides information, examples and other resources for health plans interested in developing, implementing and evaluating effective interventions aimed at reducing tobacco use.
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Tools You Can Use - For State Medicaid Programs
A Toolkit: Invest In A Healthy State : Covering Tobacco Cessation Services Under Medicaid
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The Center for Tobacco Cessation, in partnership with the National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit, has developed a Medicaid and smoking cessation information packet. The materials included address issues of critical importance to Medicaid programs, including the health and economic costs and benefits of coverage, snapshots of current state activities, and how states can improve their cessation benefits and coverage. You may download the full packet or the individual factsheets listed below.
Helping Pregnant Women Quit Smoking: Providing Coverage For Tobacco Treatment Under Medicaid
Partner packet focusing on benefits of cessation during pregnancy. Encourages State Medicaid programs to provide smoking cessation counseling and other treatment services to pregnant smokers and to urge health care providers to screen all pregnant women for tobacco use. Individual factsheets may
be downloaded.
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Cessation Certification & Training
Healthcare Providers and Tobacco Cessation
The National Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (NTCC) developed this microsite to give healthcare providers access to available CME-credit courses on tobacco cessation, and other resources related to quitting smoking, all in one place.
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Health Literacy Checklist
Health Literacy Checklist
This checklist was developed by NTCC as a guide for assessing print tobacco cessation materials for health literacy. Reviewing materials using these criteria can determine how well the pieces incorporate health literacy principles.
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