Resources
Resources for health care and public health professionals working to reduce tobacco use in your communities.
- Clinical Practice Guideline: 2008. (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality website)
- The update describes specific strategies that health care administrators, managed care organizations, and purchasers of health plans can implement to treat tobacco dependence.
- Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health — Cessation. (The Community Guide website)
- A list of interventions that have been reviewed by a task force for effectiveness.
- Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. (Smoking Cessation Leadership Center website)
- The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center aims to increase smoking cessation rates and increase the number of health professionals who help smokers quit.
- Dimensions: Tobacco Free Toolkit for Healthcare Providers. (CU Anschutz Behavioral and Wellness website)
- CU Anschutz's Dimensions: Tobacco Free Toolkit for Healthcare Providers is available in English and Spanish and provides:
- an education on tobacco use
- skills for engaging in tobacco cessation discussions
- efficient methods for assessing an individual's readiness to quit
- information and research on treatments. The Toolkit is available in English and Spanish.
- CU Anschutz's Dimensions: Tobacco Free Toolkit for Healthcare Providers is available in English and Spanish and provides:
- NAQC (North American Quitline Consortium). (North American Quitline Consortium website)
- The NAQC is an international, nonprofit membership organization that seeks to promote evidence-based quitline services across diverse communities.
- ATTUD (Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence). (ATTUD website)
- ATTUD is an organization of providers dedicated to the promotion of and increased access to evidence-based tobacco treatment for the tobacco user.
- CDC: A Practical Guide to Working With Health-Care Systems on Tobacco-Use Treatment. (CDC website)
- The CDC's: A Practical Guide to Working With Health-Care Systems on Tobacco-Use Treatment helps increase public health professionals' comfort with and skill in establishing collaborative relationships with leaders of health care systems and facilitating the creation of long-term partnerships that promote effective system-wide tobacco-use treatment.
- SBIRT Colorado: Screening, Brief, Intervention, and Referral to Treatment. (webpage)
- SBIRT Colorado is a comprehensive, integrated public health approach based on universal screenings, SBIRT creates awareness about America's No. 1 preventable health issue: substance use.
- CMS Tobacco Cessation Guidelines for Medicare. (Medicare wesite)
- The CMS Tobacco Cessation Guidelines for Medicare is intended for Medicare fee-for-service physicians, providers, suppliers, and other health care professionals who furnish or provide referrals for Medicare.
- You Can Quit 2. (You Can Quit 2 website)
- You Can Quit 2 is an educational campaign for the U.S. military, sponsored by the Department of Defense where you can get the most recent facts, tips and resources on nicotine and new tobacco products including e-cigarettes.