Smoking Cessation Tools and Resources - You Can Help Your Patients Quit Tobacco Use

• Smokefree.gov
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Tips from Former Smokers campaign
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Office on Smoking and Health (OSH)’s Patient Care
• #AskAboutQuitting: A Campaign for Providers and Community Health Professionals: Geared towards providers and community health professionals, this campaign equips you with valuable resources, ready-to-post content, and downloadable assets to help you engage and support those hoping to make quitting a reality.
• You Can Help Your Patients Quit Tobacco Use This document provides suggestions and free resources to assist you in supporting your patients in their quit attempts.
• A Practical Guide to Help Your Patients Quit Using Tobacco This guide provides simple steps and suggested language that you can use to briefly intervene with patients who use tobacco.
• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Quick Reference Guide This guide summarizes the findings from the Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, Clinical Practice Guideline: 2008 Update, including a summary of evidence-based cessation treatments and information for healthcare decision-making.
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Tobacco Cessation Recommendations Read the USPSTF’s most recent recommendations for tobacco smoking cessation interventions for adults, including pregnant women.
• The Community Guide A free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community. It includes systematic reviews of tobacco prevention and control interventions, including for cessation and second hand smoke exposure.
• Protocol for Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco Create your own tobacco cessation protocol using the Million Hearts template which is based on the most recent clinical guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence.
• Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco: Action Steps for Clinicians Use this companion guide with the Million Hearts tobacco treatment protocol. It contains practical information and action steps to enable healthcare providers to effectively treat tobacco use and dependence.
• Tobacco Cessation Change Package This Million Hearts quality improvement resource contains actionable ideas, useful resources, and health system design considerations to help health systems and practices increase the reach and effectiveness of tobacco cessation interventions.

Webinar: Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use

National Government Services (NGS) offers educational webinars twice per month to raise awareness and increase utilization of tobacco use counseling. We focus on the effects of nicotine dependence including affected health consequences during this webinar. Medicare coverage, coding, billing, and guidelines for tobacco use counseling for outpatient and hospitalized beneficiaries is also covered. NGS and the CMS resources are provided, and a brief question and answer period is offered at the end of each session.

Note: All webinars are held in ET.

For more information about tobacco cessation, tools and resources visit Tobacco Cessation.

Posted 5/27/2025