This page provides tobacco cessation and prevention resources, and information that can be used by health care professionals of all kinds.
Medicaid tobacco cessation benefits
Information for medical providers to promote tobacco cessation services for Medicaid clients, including what's covered through benefits, tips for influencing your clients to quit billing codes and more.
-
Postcard - simple one-page guide.
Clinical Practice Guideline: 2008 Update
Describes specific strategies that health care administrators, managed care organizations, and purchasers of health plans can implement to treat tobacco dependence.
Our online resource center
Free promotional materials to engage clients about quitting tobacco.
Referring patients to the QuitLine
Remember to ask every patient at each encounter about tobacco use. The Colorado QuitLine is a free quitting service available to Colorado residents 18 and older. Colorado QuitLine resources are also available in Spanish at dejeloyacolorado.org.
Patients between 17 and 17 can receive free, confidential support to quit tobacco or nicotine by visiting My Life My Quit or texting "Start" to 36072.
Technical assistance and training
Additional online resources
-
TobaccoFreeCO provides quitting resources, information on the problem of tobacco in Colorado and ways to get involved in the fight against tobacco. Find resources and information in Spanish at ColoradoSinTabaco.
-
Baby and Me Tobacco Free is a research-based program proven to help mothers and newborns.
Obtain tobacco cessation medication for your patients on Medicaid.