This guide shares best practices for having effective conversations about vaping. The tips and suggestions provide a framework for talking with youth about the negative affects vaping has on their health.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published its Framework to Support and Accelerate Smoking Cessation 2024. The framework provides common goals that can support and accelerate efforts to help people of all ages quit using tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, little cigars and cigarillos. Download the framework for more information.

Quitting smoking is the most effective treatment for smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This article shares results of a literature review undertaken to find which tobacco cessation program yields the best results for "unhealthy" smokers.

In 2022, most adult smokers in the United States wanted to quit. Fewer than 10% of the 28.8 million cigarette smokers were successful. The report was included in the July 25. 2024 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which is published by the Centers for Disease Cotnrol and Prevention.

Helping patients quit tobacco use is challenging. Health care providers can use this template from Million Hearts® to create a tobacco screening and treatment protocol they can use with patients who want to quit tobacco. The template is based on recent clinical guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence.

In this recorded webinar, behavioral health subject matter experts discuss the barriers people with mental health and substance use disorders face when seeking tobacco cessation and recovery services. The webinar also introduces tobacco cessation apps and guidelines that can be used to evaluate these tools.

Watch this recorded webinar to learn about the dangers of tobacco use and its impact on health. In this webinar, Dr. Karma-Hage, a professor in behavioral health and cancer prevention at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, discusses cancer prevention and tobacco treatment strategies.

Watch a webinar recording from the National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco and Cancer Control. Trauma-Informed Motivational Interviewing (TI-MI) shares evidence-based strategies to help participants learn more about TI-MI and explore how to use this approach to address nicotine addiction.

This resource was developed by the IPRO QIN-QIO for healthcare providers and is intended to support providers in documenting tobacco cessation and counseling details in the EHR. The tool also addresses how to code appropriately to maximize reimbursement.

The Searchable Tobacco Products Database is a new list of tobacco products—including e-cigarettes—that may be legally marketed in the United States. The database is designed to serve the public by providing this information in a single location. The database will be updated on each month.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the Tips From Former Smokers® Campaign 2024 in February. The campaign features people who are living with, or caring for, someone with smoking-related diseases and disabilities. The campaign also addresses ways to ensure that free quit-smoking resources are available to all people , no matter who they are or where they live.

In this recorded webinar from the Great Plains Quality Innovation Network, health care providers examined the factors that contribute to nicotine use and explored how the ways in which tobacco use and chronic pain are connected. This foundation can help health care providers successfully implement nicotine treatment programs.

This study shows that adults in specific racial and ethnic populations have lower ever-smoked rates and make more attempts to quit than white adults. However, the study also shows that minority communities still pay more to get care for tobacco-related conditions.

The National Institute of Mental Health shares results of study conducted to better understand what support people with serious mental illness need to quit smoking.

This fact sheet, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the impact of smoking on diabetes. It addresses the need for people who want to lower their risk for diabetes, and people who already have diabetes, to not smoke.

This article, from the National Library of Medicine, discusses smoking cessation as being the most effective intervention in stopping the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as increasing survival and reducing morbidity.

This study, published in Acta Medica Mediterranea, investigated whether smokers' literacy levels affected their success in quitting tobacco after completing a tobacco dependency treatment facility.

This article published on the National Library of Medicine webpage discusses results of a study that explored the link between health literacy and tobacco cessation. Health literacy can lead to change in people's behavior, but further studies are needed to definitively make this claim.

This study examines how exposure to tobacco can contribute to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and provides guidance for future ARDS therapeutic drug trials.

This guide provides strategies to better equip health care providers to use evidence-based interventions with patients who use tobacco. Also included in the guide are additional resources and references.

Quit smoking - it's never too late. Quitting tobacco improves your health and reduces your risk of developing many chronic diseases, such as heart disease and cancer. This website includes information on how to manage common withdrawal symptoms and tips for quitting.

The U.S. Public Health Service has developed a free, online course to help people quit using tobacco products. The USPHS-Rx for Change: Tobacco Cessation Training Program consists of two basic modules: "The Five As" and "Ask-Advise-Refer." The U.S. Public Health Service's website provides details about both programs.

This website from National Institute on Drug Abuse summarizes the facts about cigarettes and other tobacco products. Included on the site is a link to a research report that explores the scope of tobacco, nicotine and e-cigarette use in the U.S. For more resources, see the Tobacco Cessation Resources webpage at https://tmfnetworks.org/Networks/Partnership-for-Community-Health/Tobacco-Cessation-Resources.

This guide promotes the ideal that all people have a right to live a healthy, tobacco-free life, regardless of their race, level of education, gender identity, sexual orientation, the job they have, the neighborhood they live in or whether or not they have a disability. The guide focuses on programs and intervention that have shown evidence of effectiveness.

Developed by the Duke-UNC Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Program, the Essential Tobacco Treatment Toolkit contains resources for health care professionals and patients who want to quit tobacco use. Available for free upon registration on the program's website.

Smoking increases the formation of plaque in blood vessels. Coronary Heart Disease occurs when arteries that carry blood to the heart muscle are narrowed by plaque or blocked by clots. Chemicals in cigarette smoke cause the blood to thicken and form clots inside veins and arteries.

This narrative review presents a concise summary of the major smoking cessation strategies studied in the emergency department (ED) setting for adults, children and pregnant ED patients. Additionally, this review presents the strategies to increase the uptake of smoking cessation in the ED, as well as an international perspective of smoking cessation efforts in the ED.

Providers can share this flyer with patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

This document from Million Hearts provides evidence-based strategies for clinicians to identify and treat patients who use tobacco.

This is a fillable form providers can use to personalize interventions for patients who smoke.

This video, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shows the health benefits of quitting smoking, no matter the age or how long or how much a person has smoked.

This website, maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lists evidence and clinical guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence. Providers will also find usable tools to guide their practice and help them integrate tobacco treatment into routine clinical care.

It's important to talk to patients about quitting tobacco use. If providers aren't sure how to start the conversation, this website has resources to help them.

Tobacco dependence is recognized as a chronic disease, one that typically requires ongoing assessment and repeated intervention. In this update on previously published guidelines, the Tobacco Use and Dependence Guidance Panel notes that the most effective way to help tobacco users quit is to provide them with information about multiple effective treatment options.

This guide summarizes the strategies for helping people end their dependence on tobacco, published in full in Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update. The guide includes an easy-to-follow "5A's" model for treating tobacco use and dependence

This is a patient information resource from QuitAssist®. Refer patients to this website so they can review the "5 Keys for Quitting."

This website features materials for state tobacco control programs from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on Smoking and Health.

This is a patient information resource from smokefree.gov. Refer patients to this website so they can review the different tools that can help them quit their tobacco use.

This report presents the World Health Organization's estimates of tobacco use prevalence, numbers of users, and changes between 2000 and 2018, projected to 2025. Estimates are at global, regional and country levels.

The Lung Association is a leader in the area of tobacco cessation policy at the federal, state and local levels. This website includes resources to assist states in achieving smoking cessation goals, along with information about tobacco cessation coverage policy and health systems change.

The CDC published this guide to give clinicians a simple and quick intervention strategy (three-to-five minutes) to use with patients who smoke or use other tobacco products.

Electronic health records (EHRs) can be a valuable tool for providers when advising and assisting patients who want to quit smoking. The American Lung Association published this six-page paper to share promising practices and lessons learned for those who want to work with health systems to integrate or improve tobacco cessation into EHRs.

This quality improvement tool, created by the CDC, is intended for health care professionals in outpatient, inpatient and behavioral health settings that work with public health professionals who provide treatment to patients who use tobacco. The change package can help clinical teams increase the reach and effectiveness of tobacco cessation interventions and incorporate these interventions into the clinical workflow.

This quality improvement tool, created by the CDC, is intended for health care professionals in outpatient, inpatient and behavioral health settings that work with public health professionals who provide treatment to patients who use tobacco. The change package can help clinical teams increase the reach and effectiveness of tobacco cessation interventions and incorporate these interventions into the clinical workflow.

NAQC is an international, non-profit membership organization that promotes evidence-based quitline services across diverse communities in North America. More than 400 organizations and individuals make up NAQC’s membership. NACQ members help fund quitlines, conduct research around quitline-related topics, advance national cessation policies, and work in other areas of tobacco control. NAQC’s Quitline Map shows contact information and services offered in the United States and Canada.

NAQC’s Quitline Map shows contact information and services offered in the United States and Canada.

Download this two-page handout the TMF Quality Innovation Network developed to help clinicians identify patients who need tobacco cessation support and then provide treatment to those who are tobacco users.

Providers can share this flyer with Spanish-speaking patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with Spanish-speaking patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with Spanish-speaking patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with Spanish-speaking patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with Spanish-speaking patients who want to quit using tobacco products.

Providers can share this flyer with Spanish-speaking patients who want to quit using tobacco products.