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Additional Resources

 

Additional Resources

Web sites for Smoking Cessation Programs

• The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
  The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center recently developed a small, plastic card the size of a credit card, to help promote the new national quit line, 1-800-Quit-Now. This national router number accepts callers from throughout the nation and seamlessly directs them to the appropriate state quit line.
   
• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Practice Guidelines
  Click on the banner below to get information about the latest drugs and counseling techniques for treating tobacco use and dependence, compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
   

• Continuing Medical Education (CME)
  Treating tobacco use and dependence CME offered by Medscape Today Pulmonary Medicine.
  
  
• Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond
  Learn Proven Strategies to Help Your Patients Quit
  
  
• Smoking Quit Line Resources in Other States

• American Cancer Society Guide for Quitting Smoking

• Greater Cincinnati Health Council
  Web site with resources for hospitals for becoming tobacco-free

• Cooper/Clayton Smoking Cessation Program
  Offered by many agencies

Links to Guides & Toolkits for Clinicians and Providers

• Alliance for the Prevention and Treatment of Nicotine Addiction
  A tool kit for use when educating healthcare providers on implementing the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines.
  
  
• Quit Kits for the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line
  These kits contain informational materials for the Quit Line, as well as fax referral forms for your patients to receive FREE counseling from the Ohio Quit Line. To receive a Quit Kit, contact the Hamilton County Tobacco-free Partnership at 513-946-7810.  
  
  
• 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 that includes a faculty guide, six training modules, and a useful toolbox.
   
• Reimbursement for Smoking Cessation Therapy: A Healthcare Practitioner's Guide
  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.
   
• Tobacco Treatment Quick Clinician Guide
  All health professionals play an essential role in helping patients stop tobacco. Most smokers want to quit, and half of all smokers make a serious attempt each year. Without effective treatments, counseling and medications long-term success with quitting is difficult.
   
• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline (USPHS, 2000)
  This guideline, an updated version of the Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline No. 18, AHRQ, 1996, presents recommendations for treatment of tobacco use based upon a systematic literature review and analysis, peer-review process and expert panel opinion.

Links to Additional Resources:  

Clinicians

 

• Clinician's Packet - Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A How To Guide for Implementing the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline

• Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond Virtual Clinic

 

• Tobacco-free Nurses Organization

 

• Treatobacco.net is an essential resource for those working on the treatment of tobacco dependence throughout the world. It presents authoritative evidence-based information about the treatment of tobacco dependence.

Dentists

 

• Tobacco Cessation in Dentistry (Utah Tobacco Prevention & Control Program)

• University of Minnesota Division of Periodontology

 

Mental Health Care Providers

 

• Smoking Cessation & Mental Health (Department of Veterans Affairs)

• Smoking & Mental Health Fact Sheet

Helping Pregnant Smokers Quit

 

• First Breath

• The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit

• Smoke-Free Families

 

Secondhand Smoke Exposure

 

• Secondhand Smoke Deserves More Than Secondhand Attention: Modifying the 5A's Model to Include Counseling to Eliminate Exposure

 

Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Cessation Leadership Projects

 

 

 

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Funded by Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation
and The Hamilton County General Health District