Resources for health care providers treating tobacco use

Tobacco cessation and prevention

Tobacco cessation and prevention resources, and information for healthcare professionals.

• 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:
  • The Colorado Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Benefit: What Providers Need to Know. (PDF, Tobacco Free Colorado website)
  • Postcard
    • Tobacco/Nicotine Cessation Benefit: What Providers Need to Know. (PDF)
  • Health First Colorado Smoking Cessation Frequently Asked Questions. (Health First website)
     
• Clinical Practice Guideline: 2008 Update
  • The 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
• USPSTF Guidelines
  • Final Recommendation Statement: Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Persons: Interventions. (US Preventive Services Task Force website)
• Online resource center
  • Tobacco prevention and cessation materials are available for free digital download.
• Colorado QuitLine

  • Refer a patient to the Colorado QuitLine. (Colorado Quitline website)

    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
• My Life My Quit
  • Patients ages 12-17 can receive free, confidential support to quit tobacco or nicotine by visiting the My Life My Quit website or texting “Start My Quit” to 36072.

Additional online resources

• Tobacco Free Co
  • 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 
  • Baby and Me Tobacco Free is a research-based program proven to help mothers and newborns.
• CDC 
  • The CDC Smoking and Tobacco Use webpage provides information and resources for professionals and health care providers
• Tobacco cessation medication
  • Obtain tobacco cessation medication for your patients on Medicaid.