Links & Other Resources

Five Myths and Facts About Smoking in People with Mental Illness and Addiction
This six-minute video debunks five myths about smoking and quitting in people with mental illness and addiction.

American Academy of Family Physicians Tobacco and Nicotine Toolkit

The Academy’s Health of the Public and Science (HOPS) Division has launched a Tobacco and Nicotine toolkit to better support family physicians’ efforts to prevent and control tobacco and nicotine use in their patients. The Tobacco and Nicotine Toolkit’s office-based tools for family physicians include tips for integrating tobacco cessation efforts into practices, coding and payment information, patient education materials, and guides for the topics of group visits, e-cigarettes, tobacco cessation medications and behavioral health.

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Final Updated Recommendation on Tobacco Cessation

Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Interventions for Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Women: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. The USPSTF gives tobacco cessation treatments an ‘A’ for efficacy. The Affordable Care Act requires most health insurance plans to cover all preventive services given an ‘A’ or ‘B’ recommendation by USPSTF. The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to recommend electronic nicotine delivery systems (e-cigarette, etc) for tobacco cessation in adults, including pregnant women. The USPSTF recommends that clinicians direct patients who smoke tobacco to other cessation interventions with established effectiveness and safety.

E-Cigarette Use in the Past and Quitting Behavior in the Future: A Population-Based Study

E-Cigarettes: A Scientific Review

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence can be found on this website. In addition to the full manuscript, clinician guides and consumer guides are also available.

American Cancer Society
Supplies data, publications, and other information about prevention and treatment of cancer for consumers and practitioners.

American Lung Association
Provides provides a variety of educational materials for consumers and practitioners.

CDC’s Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)
Contains links to research data, Surgeon General Reports and information to use with patients. The patient information is in the public domain and can be copied and distributed to patients..

Online CME @ the University of Wisconsin
Offers a new, free one-hour web-based training program for CME credit that provides healthcare providers with basic instruction on treating tobacco users.

The Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control of the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Offers evidence-based information, clinical services, training, and professional education programs for the prevention and treatment of nicotine dependence.

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update – Clinical Practice Guideline. This 275-page Guideline contains strategies and recommendations designed to assist clinicians; tobacco dependence treatment specialists; and health care administrators, insurers, and purchasers in delivering and supporting effective treatments for tobacco use and dependence.

QuitNowNH.org
Offers expert information to help New Hampshire residents quit tobacco.

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