Smoking Cessation Resources
Fact Sheets | Consumers
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ABCS for Heart Health – This easy-to-understand fact sheet is about the ABCS of heart health (Aspirin when appropriate, Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management, and Smoking cessation).
- American Heart Association “Answers by Heart” Fact Sheets–A series of downloadable patient information sheets presented in a question-and-answer format that is brief, easy to follow, and easy to read. The fact sheets also provide space to write questions to help you prepare and get the most out of your visit with your healthcare professional.
- Reasons to Quit Smoking–Everyone has their own reasons for quitting smoking. Quitting smoking has many benefits. This is true no matter how old you are or how long you have smoked.
- What You Need To Know About Quitting Smoking: Advice From the U.S. Surgeon General–Provides an easy-to-read overview of the Surgeon General’s report and its findings. Also provides an overview of smoking cessation resources.
Fact Sheets | Providers & Healthcare Team
- 1-800 Quit Now Tobacco Cessation Guidelines
- A Practical Guide to Help Your Patients Quit Smoking
- Best Practices to Improve Tobacco Cessation Success
- Community Health Workers and Million Hearts–Community health workers can play a key role in team-based care for patients with chronic diseases, particularly for individuals facing health disparities.
- Quit Now Indiana Quick Reference Guide
- Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General
- Smoking and Respiratory Disease: What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know
- Tobacco Cessation Protocols—Create your own tobacco-cessation protocol using the following template and implementation guidance document.
- Tobacco Cessation Protocol
- Tobacco Cessation Protocol Implementation Guidance
- Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates Tobacco Intervention Workflow
- Louisiana State University Health System Tobacco Control Initiative Treatment Protocol
- Veterans Health Administration: Tobacco Use Cessation Treatment Guidance
- You Can Help Your Patients Quit Tobacco Use
Toolkits
- ABCS for the Practice Facilitator – This toolkit is a quality improvement change package for practice facilitators working with health care providers on the ABCS of heart health. It is designed to assist practice facilitators as they support meaningful improvement in primary care practices. The toolkit is not a comprehensive practice facilitator training curriculum. It is intended for the practice facilitator with a basic understanding of the concepts of practice facilitation. There are many resources available in the training of new practice facilitators, such as “The Practice Facilitation Handbook” developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- Addressing Tobacco Use in Black Communities – This toolkit created by the American Lung Association contains information and initiatives that individuals or organizations can incorporate into their tobacco work to better serve Black communities.
- Best Practice User Guide: Cessation – This user guide developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focuses on how comprehensive tobacco control programs can promote cessation through population-wide efforts.
- Best Practice User Guide: Health Equity in Tobacco Prevention and Control – This user guide developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focuses on how comprehensive tobacco control programs can work to achieve health equity in tobacco prevention and control.
- Million Hearts Tobacco Cessation Change Package – The Tobacco Cessation Change Package is a quality improvement tool created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is intended for healthcare professionals in outpatient, inpatient, and behavioral health settings and public health professionals who partner with these groups. It provides a list of process improvements that clinicians can implement as they seek to deliver optimal treatment to patients who use tobacco. It gives clinical teams a practical resource to increase the reach and effectiveness of tobacco cessation interventions and to incorporate these interventions into the clinical workflow.
- Clinician Action Guide on Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco
- Million Hearts Tobacco Cessation Change Package Video Tutorial
- Public Health Roadmap to Coaching a Clinical Team to use the Million Hearts® Tobacco Cessation Change Package – This roadmap from the American Lung Association serves as a tool to guide professionals in how best to use the Million Hearts Tobacco Cessation Change Package and Best Practice User Guide: Cessation.
- Tobacco Cessation Resource Guide for Health Centers – This document outlines the efforts between the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to learn how the Million Hearts® Tobacco Cessation Change Package (TCCP) could be adapted to help community health center staff reach Healthy People 2030 goals to: reduce illness, disability, and death related to tobacco use and secondhand smoke.