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Smoking Cessation
Products and Publications
Posters, Brochures,
& Print Outs
VA Smoking Cessation Pocket Guide for Clinicians
‘Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians’. This
guide was originally developed by Tobacco Free
Nurses and the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and has been revised for use by clinical
providers in the VA Health Care System. The pocket
guide provides brief guidance on the 5 A’s of
smoking cessation counseling: Ask, Advise, Assess,
Assist, and Arrange.
VA Pocket Guide.pdf (211k PDF file)
Order Copies of the Pocket
Guide
To order copies of the
wallet-size pocket guide ‘Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for
Clinicians’ from the VA Publications Depot, please
contact your local Forms and Publications Control
Officer and request that they place an order for
you. The information that should be entered into the FPORDERS is IB 10-96, P96189.
VA Smoking Cessation Posters
  You are also encouraged to order the new, full-color smoking cessation 8’” X 11” posters that are now available in the VHA Publications Depot. Please order these through your Publications and Forms Officer. They are
VA Poster 10-84, P96190 and VA Poster 10-85, P96191. These are new posters that we are announcing as part of the observance of the Great American Smokeout. The PDFs for these posters are attached below.
VAP_10-84_P96190.pdf (3,012k PDF file)
VAP_10-85_P96191.pdf (209k PDF file)
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Surveys and Reports
Integrating Tobacco Cessation Treatment into Mental Health Care
In May 2006, the VA Puget Sound Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center and the Center of Excellence in Substance Abuse Treatment and Education, in collaboration with the Public Health National Prevention Program held preceptor training for VHA mental health and substance use disorder providers,
Integrating Tobacco Cessation Treatment into Mental Health Care. The summary of that meeting is now available in a PDF format.
2005-Tobacco-Cessation-Treatment-Mental-Health-Care.pdf (4.1 megabyte PDF file,
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VA in the Vanguard: Building on Success in Smoking Cessation
In September 2004, the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center of the University of California, San Francisco and the VHA Public Health Strategic Health Care Group held a conference to review best practices in tobacco use cessation clinical programs and policies. For a copy of the complete proceedings, please contact Ms. Catherine Saucedo of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at
csaucedo@medicine.ucsf.edu.
2004-Smoking_Cessation_Conf_Proceedings.pdf (4.1 megabyte PDF file)
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Rules and Regulations
Co-payments for counseling eliminated
(Federal
Register, January 17, 2006)
smoking-cessation_06-373.pdf (49k PDF file)
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VA Directives and Information Letters
National Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation
Program
(VHA Directive 2003-042, August 6, 2003))
VHA_Directive_2003_042.pdf (30k PDF file)
Smoke Free Policy for VA Health Care Facilities
(VHA
Directive 2003-035, July 1, 2003)
12003035.pdf (127k PDF file)
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