Tobacco Grant Program: Cessation and health systems change
Resources
Resources for health care and public health professionals working to reduce tobacco use in your communities.
ATTUD is an organization of providers dedicated to the promotion of and increased access to evidence-based tobacco treatment for the tobacco user.
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.
The 2008 update describes specific strategies that health care administrators, managed care organizations, and purchasers of health plans can implement to treat tobacco dependence.
- Clinical Practice Guideline: 2008. (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality website)
The CMS Tobacco Cessation Guidelines for Medicare are intended for Medicare fee-for-service physicians, providers, suppliers, and other health care professionals who furnish or provide referrals for Medicare.
- CMS Tobacco Cessation Guidelines for Medicare. (Medicare website)
The NAQC is an international, nonprofit membership organization that seeks to promote evidence-based quitline services across diverse communities.
- NAQC (North American Quitline Consortium). (North American Quitline Consortium website)
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.
The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center aims to increase smoking cessation rates and increase the number of health professionals who help smokers quit.
- Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. (Smoking Cessation Leadership Center website)
The Community Guide website provides a list of interventions that have been reviewed by a task force for effectiveness.
Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health — Cessation. (The Community Guide 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.
Dimensions: Tobacco Free Toolkit for Healthcare Providers. (CU Anschutz Behavioral and Wellness website)
You Can Quit 2 is an educational campaign for the U.S. military, sponsored by the Department of Defense, that includes the most recent facts, tips, and resources on nicotine and new tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.
- You Can Quit 2. (You Can Quit 2 website)