Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, sponsored by the Public Health Service, includes new, effective clinical treatments for tobacco dependence that have become available since the 2000 Guideline was published. This update will make an important contribution to the quality of care in the United States and to the health of the American people.
Accurate, up-to-date information and professional assistance are provided in two resources from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help support people who are trying to quit smoking:
- You Can Quit Smoking Now. Go to: http://www.smokefree.gov.
- 1-800-QUIT NOW—the national access number to State-based quitline services.
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Contents
How Health Care Providers Can Help
Tool to Help Smokers Quit
Tool to Help Pregnant Women Quit
Help for Tobacco Users
Archives
Evidence Report
Additional Resources
Want More Information?
How Health Care Providers Can Help
All health care providers, especially those with direct patient contact,
have a unique opportunity to help tobacco users quit. Smokers cite a doctor's
advice to quit as an important motivator for attempting to stop smoking.
Materials to help you help them follow:
Clinical
Practice Guideline. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update (PDF
file, 2 MB; PDF Help)—Updated
General References for Guideline (PDF File, 200 KB)
References for Studies in Meta-analyses
Helping
Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians—Updated
Tool to Help Smokers Quit
To help inform kids and adults about how smoking affects children, former
National Football League pro Darrell Green talks with third-grade kids
about tobacco use.
Smoking Cessation Public Service Announcements
Tool to Help Pregnant Women Quit
If you're expecting, quitting smoking is the most important thing you
can do for yourself and your baby. When you stop using tobacco products,
you will have more energy and breathe more easily. Additionally, your baby
will get more oxygen and be more likely to be born at a normal weight.
Clinician Tear Sheets, Prenatal (PDF File, 513 KB, PDF Help; Text Version)
En español (PDF File, 514 KB, PDF Help; Text Version)
Help for Tobacco Users
Consumer materials to help smokers become tobacco-free.
Help for Smokers and Other Tobacco Users, Easy-to-Read Consumer Booklet—Updated
En español: Ayuda para fumadores u otros consumidores de tabaco
You
Can Quit Smoking, Pocket Card
En español: Usted
puede dejar de fumar
Quitting
Helps You Heal Faster, Hospital Card
En español: Dejar
de fumar le ayuda a sanar más rápido
Quit
Smoking Products Ordering Information
Archives
This information is being revised to relect the 2008 update of Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence.
Clinician's Packet—Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Clinician's Tear Sheet (Personalized Quit Plan)
En español: Usted puede dejar de fumar
Quick
Reference Guide for Clinicians. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence--A Systems Approach
Posters (You
Can Quit Smoking) (PDF
File, 69 KB, PDF Help; Text
Version)
En español (PDF FIle, 27 KB, PDF Ayuda; Text version)
Quit Smoking: Consumer Interactive Tool
You Can Quit Smoking, 5-Day Countdown
En español: Prepárese en 5 días para dejar de fumar
You Can Quit Smoking, Consumer Guide
En español: Usted
puede dejar de fumar: Guía del consumidor
Evidence Report
The RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence-based
Practice Center systematically reviews the medical literature on the effectiveness
of interventions to prevent tobacco use, the impact of smokeless tobacco
marketing on smoking, and directions for future research.
Tobacco
Use: Prevention, Cessation, and Control
Additional Resources
Search
the healthfinder® Web site for more Smoking
Cessation resources.
Visit
the National Women's Health Information Center Web site for a special
section: A Breath
of Fresh Air! Independence from Smoking.
Go
to the National Library of Medicine for consumer information on Smoking
Cessation.
Twenty
years ago, the first Surgeon General's report on secondhand smoke
created greater awareness across the country about the exposure
of nonsmokers to tobacco smoke. This report provides a fresh perspective
on the best available science in this area to better inform policymakers,
health professionals, and the public at large. The
Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A
Report of the Surgeon General, 2006
Want More Information?
In the United States, call the AHRQ Clearinghouse toll-free 800-358-9295,
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Hearing impaired persons may call 888-586-6340
for the TDD service. Callers from outside of the United States only should
use the telephone number (703) 437-2078.
Send requests by E-mail to AHRQPubs@ahrq.hhs.gov.
You can also access and download materials from the Surgeon General's
Web site at: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/default.htm
Current as of May 2008