This section of the website provides resources to assist leaders, staff, and clinicians in preparing for change, to acquire and disseminate information in the form of tobacco cessation materials, and also includes links to external websites for additional education, support, and information.
American College of Chest Physicians Tobacco Dependence Treatment Toolkit
The ACCP Tobacco Cessation Toolkit is now available for free online; the comprehensive kit incorporates everything from identifying users and assessing their risks and level of addiction, to providing motivational advice, pharmacotherapy information, and follow-up relapse prevention techniques
The Alliance for the Prevention and Treatment of Nicotine Addiction (APTNA)
A 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization that works in collaboration with healthcare organizations and providers to promote smoking cessation; contains training (online courses, certifications, and training manuals), links (toolkits, patient education, special populations, etc), and resources (downloadable power points and pdf's)
Partnership for Prevention
A nonpartisan organization of business, nonprofit and government leaders working to make evidence based disease prevention and health promotion a national priority and America a healthier nation; Partnership seeks to increase understanding and use of clinical preventive services and population-based prevention to improve health
Rx for Change
Provides training materials for staff and other resources to help patients with quitting; developed by the University of California San Francisco
Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center is a national program office that provides toolkits, publications, power points, and information on tobacco addiction and behavioral health
Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network
Bring Everyone Along Project developed resources to assist health professionals to adapt their treatment services to the unique needs of tobacco users with mental health and substance use disorders; includes CME course, toolkits, presentations, consumer information, fact sheets, etc.
Tobacco-Free Living in Psychiatric Settings: A Best-Practices Toolkit Promoting Wellness
This toolkit was designed by National Association of Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) to address all types of tobacco use, including cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco; the charts, checklists, policies, and resources in this toolkit are practical tools to create a tobacco-free psychiatric settings
Tobacco Recovery Resource Exchange
The Exchange offers administrators and clinicians free downloadable resources and tolls to implement tobacco education, treatment, and policies in chemical dependence treatment; continuing education opportunities available
Carbon monoxide (CO) breath monitor (sometimes called a CO meter) is a small handheld device used to measure the level of carbon monoxide (in parts per million) in the expired breath. CO is a colorless, odorless gas which is produced by incomplete combustion such as house fires, vehicle exhaust, faulty gas appliances as well as smoking tobacco (cigarette, cigar, pipe, mentholated tobacco and hookah smoking) as well as marijuana smoke. Several websites of companies are listed below. Some have resources including training videos, calibration helps, MSDS’s and guides to interpreting results for example. Some meters offer different features and before purchasing you need to consider initial cost, cost of individual tests going forward, and needed information from each test.
The Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) is a brief, effective assessment to determine nicotine dependence and treatment options for tobacco users
The Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence for Smokeless Tobacco (FTND-ST) is an adaptation of the FTND used to determine nicotine dependence and treatment options for smokeless tobacco users
The Tobacco Free Maine website describes an assortment of easy to use and effective tools for assessing nicotine dependence, readiness to quit, and other co-morbid conditions
USPHS Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence 2008 Update Guidelines
Comprehensive clinical practice guidelines on treating tobacco use and dependence the latest on evidence-based practice
Also available in Spanish
Cochrane Collaboration/Summary Reports
Important clinical treatment questions and approaches (medications, acupuncture, psychosocial treatments) Cochrane evaluates the evidence-basis to tobacco addiction treatments
The 2010 Surgeon General's report contains important new information about how tobacco smoke causes disease, why it is important to protect others from tobacco smoke, and also why it is so important to quit smoking.... and why now is the time to quit
A treatment manual is to provide a format to address tobacco for smokers with a serious mental illness who are either prepared to quit smoking or who are simply contemplating quitting in the future
Tobacco Use Cessation During Substance Abuse Treatment Counseling
SAMHSA's Advisory, Volume 10, Issue 2, offers substance abuse treatment counselors a brief introduction to tobacco use cessation techniques that can be used during substance abuse treatment; the Advisory also provides resources for additional information on the topic
Organizational change is imperative to sustaining innovative measures of any change intervention. There are several websites that provide overall guidance to organizational change efforts.
10-step process designed to help an organization systematically improve their tobacco addiction treatment for patients and change their culture to better address tobacco
Destination Tobacco-Free: A Practical Tool for Hospitals and Health Systems
Keeping Your Hospital Property Smoke-Free
A toolkit developed jointly with ten healthcare organizations and the Joint Commission on successful strategies for effective enforcement and compliance
Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) Smoke-Free Hospitals Initiative
This website has links to resources, news clips, policy and communication samples, etc.
Tobacco Use Cessation Policies in Substance Abuse Treatment: Administrative Issues
SAMHSA's Advisory, Volume 10, Issue 3, provides program administrators with a brief introduction to implementing tobacco-free policies and practices in treatment settings
Online materials, including information on state telephone-based programs; a state-by-state and global interactive guide to finding support
Nicotine Anonymous is a non-profit 12-Step fellowship of men and women helping each other live nicotine-free lives; adapted from the AA model; check website for local live, phone, and internet meetings
Available in Spanish
On-Line Counseling via Become an EX
Become an EX focuses more on the "hows" of quitting rather than the "whys"; this interactive site allows users to create a personal profile, use blogs, forums, check out online videos, and much more; created by leading experts in smoking cessation, as well as current and former smokers
Available in Spanish
Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence is an organization of providers dedicated to the promotion of and increased access to evidence-based tobacco treatment for the tobacco user; information on membership, as well as presentations that are available including the latest World Conference on Tobacco or Health are available
Receive frequent, tailored email updates regarding almost any aspect of tobacco control; this is a great way to stay current on important issues
American Heart Association & American Stroke Association
Tips for family and friends, cost calculator, assessments, FAQ's brochures
1-800-AHA-USA-1 (1-800-242-8721)
1-888-4-STROKE (1-888-478-7653)
Resources regarding policy, workplace wellness, cessation, and the effects of tobacco use
Freedom From Smoking Online cessation program
1-800-LUNG-USA (1-800-548-8252)
The American Cancer Society is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer and addresses tobacco and smoking cessation; this website provides support for the road to recovery from smoking addiction; information, resources, and support available on any cancer-related topic; resources include materials in Spanish
1-800-ACS-2345 (1-800-227-2345)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC and Prevention Smoking and Tobacco Use website is an online source for reliable information and offer free resources in both English and Spanish; national data including tobacco fact sheets, reports, youth/adult national survey data, and archived Surgeon General's reports are also available
1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636)
Research studies, news updates, quitting smoking resources, tobacco statistics, Spanish resources also available
1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237)
National Institute on Drug Abuse
The National Institute on Drug Abuse website has information on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs including materials that can be ordered or downloaded free of charge; posters and brochures are available for educational purposes and support; this website also contains information for different age groups and resources in Spanish
The 2010 Surgeon General's Report "How Tobacco Smoke Causes Diseases" easy-to-read, 20-page booklet summarizes the 700+ page Surgeon General's report released in December of 2010; the booklet provides practical information about the dangers of tobacco use and what people can do to quit tobacco use and protect themselves and their families from exposure to smoke
Pan American Health Organization
This website is part of the World Health Organization and provides resources on implementing a smoke-free environment; it also contains additional resource links to WHO's World No Tobacco Day website as well as publications in both English and Spanish
The first national program created with the objective of helping nurses quit, providing resources to nurses who want to help their patients quit and to promote tobacco control in the agenda of nursing organizations
Web Based Courses
Free Online Tobacco Control Training from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is available; The multimedia educational modules use experts from around the world and can be completed at your leisure
Recovery Settings
Non-smoking Marijuana Anonymous meeting
Based on the latest scientific research and participate in a world-wide community which includes free, self-empowering, secular and science-based, mutual-help support groups; focuses on tobacco and other addictions, local group available; alternative to the 12-Step model
Veterans
US Department of Defense, Quit Tobacco-Make Everyone Proud features You Can Quit 2, an online support system that uses interactive quit tools, self-assessment questionnaires, quizzes and other activities; strong support system component; screening for tobacco use during primary care visits, individual counseling, prescriptions for nicotine replacement therapy, such as a nicotine patch or gum, or other medications, participation in evidence-based smoking cessation programs offered
Call 1-866-PATIENTS (1-866-728-4368)
Women and Children
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Established a Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence in 2006 dedicated to the elimination of children's exposure to tobacco and secondhand smoke; this website provides free materials and a newly developed policy tool
Breastfeeding and Tobacco
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund are the leading advocacy organizations working to reduce tobacco use and its deadly consequences in the United States and around the world.
Medication Access
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
Assists qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage get the medicines they need for free or nearly free
FixNixer
NRT Medication Info
