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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.