A Clinical Toolkit for Treating Tobacco Dependence

YES YOU CAN A Clinical Toolkit for Treating Tobacco Dependence For teens, pregnant women and adult populations. Click on "Want to Quit?" on the navigation bar on the left side of your screen for more patient education information.

The influence a clinician's advice can have on a patient's tobacco use is enormous. Current data show that in less than three minutes of counseling, a clinician can help double a patient's chance of success.

One-third of the 3,367,000 adults in Texas who smoke will try to quit this year. Regrettably, only one in 20 will be able to stay tobacco-free. Tobacco claims the lives of approximately 24,100 Texans every year, and every year, about 56,900 young Texans under age 18 become new, daily smokers. Of all Texas youth alive now, nearly 486,000 will ultimately die from tobacco-related diseases.

Adding to this challenge is the $966 million spent annually on marketing tobacco in Texas. Research has found that children are three times more sensitive to tobacco industry marketing efforts than adults, and that cigarette marketing carries more influence than peer pressure in underage experimentation with smoking.

As daunting as the task for smoking intervention may seem, current data underscores this fact: the coordinated efforts of health care administrators, insurers, purchasers and practitioners can boost cessation success.

The tools in this kit are designed to support your clinic's own tobacco intervention efforts. They offer flexibility to meet the needs of different office practices and different patients, and their focus on brevity, as with the "Quick Guides" below, seeks to accommodate the busiest practitioner.

Use only those tools that fit the specific needs of your office, and enlist the support of clinic staff in implementing a system that ensures that, for every patient at every clinic visit, tobacco use is queried and documented. Most important is your consistent support of your patient's efforts to stay tobacco-free.

File Download

Individual items found in the toolkit are provided as PDF files below (PDF viewing information).

	Binder Cover (71 kb)
	Introductory Provider Guide (409 kb)
	5 A's Quick Guide: Helping tobacco users willing to quit (136 kb)
	Pharmacotherapy Quick Guide (112 kb)
	Vital Signs Stickers (13 kb)
	"Yes You Can!" Quit Smoking Poster - English (71 kb)
	"Yes You Can!" Quit Smoking Poster - Spanish (70 kb)
	"Yes You Can!" Quick Tips Rx Pad for quitters (63 kb)
	Fax Referral Form (65 kb)
	Resources and Further Reading for Patients and Consumers (74 kb)
	Resources and Further Reading for Healthcare Practitioners (76 kb)
	Prescription Pad: Quick Tips, Rx for staying smoke-free (63 kb)
Audio Scripts for On-Hold Messaging
	New Smokers (73 kb)
	Doctor's Advice to Quit Smoking (73 kb)
	Smoking and Depression (72 kb)
	Try Again to Quit Smoking (73 kb)
	Healing Begins Immediately After Quitting (74 kb)
Patient Brochures
	Yes! I'm Ready to Quit (2.2 mb, Publication Number E16-11991)
	Maybe. I'm Thinking About Quitting (2.1 mb, Publication Number E16-11993)
	No, I'm Not Ready to Quit (1.9 mb, Publication Number E16-11992)

Links to Additional Resources

External links to other sites are intended to be informational and do not have the endorsement of the Texas Department of State Health Services. These sites may also not be accessible to people with disabilities.

United States Department of Health and Human Services » Tobacco Cessation Guideline Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (599 kb)

This page was last modified February 16, 2007