Tools & Resources

Check out these time tested and proven resources. The following list of tools and resources are encouraged for use by healthcare professionals in any clinical setting.

QuitWorks-NH Tools

QuitWorks-NH provides the following tools to prompt staff to ask every patient about their tobacco use.

Patient Referral Forms

QuitWorks-NH provides an easy to use web referral form for hospitals and health systems free of charge.

QuitNow-NH

Offers expert coaching, health education and medication to help New Hampshire residents quit tobacco.

Tobacco Use Questionnaire

Quick questionnaire to assess your patient’s readiness to quit tobacco.

NH Quitline Poster for Exam Rooms

Hang this poster in your practice to inform patients of the free treatment services for nicotine addiction offered by QuitNow-NH.

NH Quitline Rack Card

Provide this rack card to your patients to encourage quitting and provide information about no-cost quit services.

You CAN Quit Tobacco Booklet

Provide this booklet to your patients wherever they are in their tobacco quit journey. It includes practical strategies, resources, and encouragement for quitting successfully.

Pregnancy & Tobacco Rack Card

Tobacco use (including smoking, vaping, and chewing tobacco) at any time before, during, and after pregnancy is not safe. Download the Today is For Me rack card or order free copies for your patients.

Videos

Pharmacotherapy and Tobacco Treatment with Your Patients

Get tips on using the seven US FDA-approved cessation medications, dosing nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) for those trying to quit e-cigarettes, and the special considerations for use during pregnancy and while taking other medications. Explore the module here.

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.

Quitting Smoking is a Journey

This twelve-minute video explores what works and what doesn’t work when your patients are thinking about quitting smoking.

Additional Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Access their Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, along with guides for clinicians and consumers that describes best practices for tobacco use disorder treatment, including integrating into practices.

The Million Hearts Tobacco Cessation Change Packet

A collection of quality improvement tools and resources to implement tobacco treatment in any practice.

Tobacco and Nicotine Cessation Toolkit (American Academy of Family Physicians)

This toolkit was developed to better support family physicians’ efforts to prevent and control tobacco and nicotine use in their patients. Additional 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.

Tobacco Dependence Treatment Toolkit (American College of Chest Physicians)

This comprehensive toolkit developed for healthcare professionals includes guidelines on how to better assess a patient’s readiness and willingness to quit tobacco use. Topics covered include motivational interviewing, testing/diagnostics, treatment basics, and insurance billing.

Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Interventions for Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Women

In the final recommendation on tobacco cessation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s (USPSTF), tobacco cessation treatments are given 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.

Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults

This guide supports health care professionals, systems, and communities seeking to prevent vaping. It describes relevant research findings, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.

American Cancer Society

Supplies data, publications, and other information about prevention and treatment of cancer for consumers and professionals.

American Lung Association

Provides a variety of educational materials for consumers and professionals.

CDC’s Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)

Contains links to research data, Surgeon General Reports, and information to use with your patients. The patient information is in the public domain and can be copied and distributed to patients.

On-demand CME from the University of Wisconsin

Offers a free one-hour web-based training program for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit that provides healthcare professionals with information on how to initiate evidence-based clinical interventions using a brief intervention model.

Center for Tobacco Treatment Research & Training 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.