Tobacco Cessation Programs
Tobacco Cessation Services
Tobacco Cessation Medications (FDA approved)
Tobacco Cessation Medication Manufacturers
Tools You Can Use - For Clinicians/Providers
Tools You Can Use - For Employers
Tools You Can Use - For Insurers/Managed Care
Tools You Can Use - For State Medicaid Programs
Cessation Certification & Training
Health Literacy Checklist
Tobacco Cessation Programs
1-800-QuitNow
1-800-QuitNow is a free telephone service that will link callers to a trained quit coach in their area to help them quit tobacco.
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care
Program that promotes the integration of effective smoking cessation interventions into the basic health care provided by managed care organizations.
California Tobacco Control Alliance
A California statewide coalition working to reduce tobacco use through collaboration with traditional tobacco control constituencies and inclusion of partners not traditionally associated with tobacco control.
ChewFree.com
A research study funded by the National Cancer Institute and led by the Oregon Research Institute offering assistance to smokeless tobacco users. Participants receive quitting assistance and are asked to complete research questionnaires on-line to help evaluate the program.
Circle of Friends
An initiative led by American Legacy Foundation to offer support for women smokers who want to quit.
Great Start
A free program for pregnant smokers who want to quit sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation.
Helping Young Smokers Quit
The Helping Young Smokers Quit initiative is a two-phase project that addresses the critical need to disseminate effective, developmentally appropriate cessation programs for adolescent smokers.
National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit
A coalition of diverse organizations joining forces to improve the health of this and future generations by increasing the number of pregnant smokers who quit.
North American Quitline Consortium
A collaborative of quitline professionals from health departments, service providers, researchers, and national organizations in the United States and Canada working together to increase access to and the effectiveness of quitline services that help people in their attempts to quit smoking.
Free & Clear QuitForLifeTM Program
The national leader in phone-based tobacco dependence treatment, Free & Clear, Inc. helps employers, health plans and government agencies address tobacco use in their respective organizations.
Pacific Center on Health & Tobacco
A five-state coalition of agencies and state health departments working to implement comprehensive tobacco cessation programs in their own states and collaborating to provide the support and technical assistance needed for other states to design and implement effective programs.
Professional Assisted Cessation Therapy
An independent consortium of smoking cessation therapy professionals working to lower barriers to broader utilization of treatment through education and advocacy.
QuitNet
A web-based cessation program operated in association with Boston University's School of Public Health.
Save Our Daughters
A campaign sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids that aims to remove smoking and tobacco from movies in an effort to reduce tobacco use among women and girls.
SmokeClinic
An online initiative offering smokers assistance with quitting, sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation.
Smokefree Families
A program dedicated to innovations to stop smoking during and beyond pregnancy.
Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
A national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at the University of California, San Francisco with a mission to raise the number of health professionals and health care institutions that successfully help their patients to quit smoking.
Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network
Formed as the result of two multi-state collaborations from 2000-2005, the TCLN seeks to help increase the capacity in every state to establish effective cessation services.
Tobacco Free Nurses
An initiative focused on helping nurses to stop smoking funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Tobacco Cessation Services
American Cancer Society: Tobacco and Cancer
This web page, part of www.cancer.org, provides tips for quitting smoking and explains the Great American Smokeout.
American Lung Association: Tobacco Control
Offers general information about quitting smoking and tobacco control as well as specific information for women and teens.
CDC Media Campaign Resource Center – Cessation Ads
A product of the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, the Media Campaign Resource Center is a database of hundreds of licensed advertisements developed by a number of state and federal agencies. They are available for use by other states, organizations and government agencies. This link takes you to the 100 cessation ads currently in the database.
CDC's Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
Hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this web page offers tips on how to quit, links to reports from the Surgeon General, research, data, and reports, and educational materials.
Proyecto Vida: Latino Deje de Fumar
A project that developed language and culturally sensitive services to help members of the Hispanic community quit smoking. From the Tobacco Dependence Program (TDP) through a grant from RWJF.
Smokefree.gov
Online resource with tools, information, and support that have been effective in helping smokers quit, including state and national resources, free materials, and the best quitting advice the National Cancer Institute and its partners have to offer.
Smoking Cessation, Quality of Life and Older Persons
Provides information on tobacco use cessation, links to a wide variety of articles, bibliographies, and other resources provided by the National Center for Tobacco-Free
Older Persons, The Center for Social Gerontology.
Treatobacco.net
An essential resource for anyone working on the treatment of tobacco dependence throughout the world, especially for those interested in evidence-based information.
Try to Stop
A resource for smokers interested in quitting sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Health.
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Tobacco Cessation Medications (FDA approved)
Nicotine Replacement Therapies:
Nicorette® (gum)
Nicoderm® (patch)
Habitrol® (patch)
Prostep® (patch)
Nicotrol® (inhaler and nasal spray)
Commit® (lozenge)
Bupropion SR® (sustained release)
Wellbutrin® (pill)
Zyban® (pill)
ChantixTM (pill) FDA Fact Sheet PDF
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Tobacco Cessation Medication Manufacturers
GlaxoSmithKline (Commit®, Nicorette®, Nicoderm®, Wellbutrin®, Zyban®)
Novartis (Habitrol®)
Pfizer (Nicotrol®)
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Tools You Can Use - For Clinicians/Providers
Alliance for the Prevention and Treatment of Nicotine Addiction
A toolkit for use when educating healthcare providers on implementating the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Clinician's Packet: A How To Guide for Implementing the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines
A how-to guide for implementing the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. It contains information about developing a system, advising patients, special populations, and reimbursement; and products for clinicians and consumers.
Key Points to Help Dispel the Myths about Nicotine and NRT
Developed to ensure that cessation information and communications contain accurate information on nicotine and its role in quitting smoking.
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. Includes a faculty guide, six training modules, and a useful toolbox.
Reimbursement for Smoking Cessation Therapy: A Healthcare Practitioner’s Guide Download PDF
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.
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline (USPHS, 2000) Download PDF
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.
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Tools You Can Use - For Employers
A Guide to Purchasing Prevention Benefits
This guide was developed for employers in North Carolina by North Carolina Prevention Partners and contains information that may be helpful to employers in other states.
Employers’ Smoking Cessation Guide: Practical Approaches to a Costly Workplace Problem Download PDF
Developed as a tool to help employers – large and small – enact affordable, effective smoking cessation programs in their companies. This guide makes the “business case” for employer involvement in smoking cessation, highlighting the enormous direct and indirect costs—both in health care and lost productivity—of smoking.
Health Insurance Benefits
At-a-glance summary from the "Build a Financial Infrastructure." This summary is intended to help guide discussions to employers and purchasers and can be tailored to each state.
Healthy Workforce 2010: An Essential Health Promotion Sourcebook for Employers, Large and Small Download PDF
This Partnership for Prevention publication designed for employers presents a set of national health objectives, with 10-year targets. The goal is to help explain objectives to employers so they can work on helping the nation achieve these targets.
Make it Your Business: Insure a tobacco-free workforce Employer’s Toolkit Download PDF
Developed by the Tobacco-free Coalition of Oregon, this employer’s toolkit makes the case for providing cessation benefits or services to Oregon employees and provides tools to help promote them.
Preventive Services: Helping Employers Expand Coverage
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Developed by the Partnership for Prevention, this guide provides employers with information on return-on-investment data, health research and various health plans. The goal is to give employers the information they need to provide quality health coverage at a reasonable cost.
Sample Purchasing Specifications Related to Tobacco-Use Prevalence and Cessation Download PDF
This document sets forth illustrative language for the purchase of tobacco-use prevention and cessation services from managed care organizations by state agencies administering Medicaid, other state agencies and other managed care purchasers.
Tobacco Control and Prevention - Employer Support
This project seeks to reduce tobacco use in the U.S. by encouraging employers to adopt policies and programs proven to discourage tobacco use and help users kick the habit. It also attempts to move the nation closer to achieving two Healthy People 2010 objectives (and provide a data source for these objectives).
Tobacco Cessation at the Worksite
A tobacco cessation toolkit for employers that provides information on how and why to implement a smoke-free policy and invest time and money to help employees quit smoking. Developed by the Colorado Business Group on Health and the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative.
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Tools You Can Use - For Insurers/Managed Care
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care: A Resource Guide to Health Plans Download PDF
This guide provides information, examples and other resources for health plans interested in developing, implementing and evaluating effective interventions aimed at reducing tobacco use.
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Tools You Can Use - For State Medicaid Programs
A Toolkit: Invest In A Healthy State : Covering Tobacco Cessation Services Under Medicaid
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The Center for Tobacco Cessation, in partnership with the National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit, has developed a Medicaid and smoking cessation information packet. The materials included address issues of critical importance to Medicaid programs, including the health and economic costs and benefits of coverage, snapshots of current state activities, and how states can improve their cessation benefits and coverage. You may download the full packet or the individual factsheets listed below.
Help Smokers Quit: Why should your state invest more in smoking cessation benefits? (Factsheet)
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Overview of cost saving and health benefits possible with tobacco dependence treatment coverage under Medicaid. Brief description of recommended treatment based on PHS guidelines.
State-by State Analysis: Why is smoking cessation a wise investment? (Factsheet)
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State-specific information on State Medicaid expenditures on smoking-related costs.
Current Treatment Programs: What are states doing now on cessation? (Factsheet)
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Overview of available Medicaid benefits including a detailed list of current coverage in the states.
Treating Tobacco Dependence: Recommended Procedures and Treatments (Factsheet)
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Detailed overview of recommended treatments.
Benefits of Smoking Cessation (Factsheet)
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Detailed overview of health benefits to smoking cessation.
Charts for Every State (Factsheet)
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Tobacco Costs and Tobacco Control Investments, State Tobacco Quitline Information, Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco Dependence Treatment
Helping Pregnant Women Quit Smoking: Providing Coverage For Tobacco Treatment Under Medicaid
Partner packet focusing on benefits of cessation during pregnancy. Encourages State Medicaid programs to provide smoking cessation counseling and other treatment services to pregnant smokers and to urge health care providers to screen all pregnant women for tobacco use. Individual factsheets may
be downloaded.
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Cessation Certification & Training
ACT Center for Tobacco Treatment, Education and Research, a program of the University of Mississippi Medical Center
The ACT Center offers 2 levels of training for professionals interested in offering tobacco cessation services. The first is a 4-day workshop for those who wish to become certified as a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. Participants receive the knowledge, skills-based training and all necessary resources to deliver the standardized Tobacco Dependence Intervention System program, an intensive treatment approach grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy. The second training opportunity is a 3-4 hour Healthcare Provider training program, geared to a broad range of providers who wish to offer brief interventions in the medical or dental environment.
Center for Tobacco Independence, Maine
Three different types of training for health professionals in Maine are available: brief, intensive and advanced. The two-day Specialist Training offers practical information on how to provide moderate to intensive tobacco treatment services. This program places emphasis on the skills necessary to deliver behavioral counseling and understand evidence-based treatments.
Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine offers five web based modules for continuing medical education to help clinicians implement the clinical practice guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence.
Mayo School of Continuing Education – Nicotine Dependence Seminar
Seminar hosted by the Mayo Clinic offers an in-person training seminar for patient care for nicotine dependence and education in all areas of tobacco intervention.
Rx for Change
Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation is a comprehensive, tobacco cessation training program that equips health professional students and licensed clinicians with knowledge and skills for assisting patients with quitting.
The Arizona Certification Program: Tobacco Cessation Intervention Skills
This program provides the best evidence-based information that is simple, practical and easy to understand. A face-to face training component complements the on-line portion of the program.
The Association for Addiction Professionals
Offers a credentialing program for a tobacco addiction specialist designation through a partnership with the University of Florida and Patient
Support International.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J.: Tobacco Dependence Treatment Specialist Training
The School of Public Health Tobacco Dependence Program offers an intensive five-day training for health professionals who want to provide effective tobacco dependence treatment for their patients. Participants will learn how to assess nicotine dependence, conduct treatment planning, and deliver face-to-face treatment, including counseling and the use of medications.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Offers a program for those interested in earning the designation of "certified tobacco treatment specialist" through an intensive competency-based
training program.
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Health Literacy Checklist
Health Literacy Checklist
This checklist was developed by NTCC as a guide for assessing print tobacco cessation materials for health literacy. Reviewing materials using these criteria can determine how well the pieces incorporate health literacy principles.
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