Smoking Cessation Resources

Fact Sheets | Consumers

Fact Sheets | Providers & Healthcare Team

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: 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.

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