Resources

Health care and community service providers and staff play an important role in helping people who use commercial tobacco products to quit. It is also important for state and local public health professionals to support screening and treating commercial tobacco use through broader health systems change efforts. When you engage in efforts to improve treatment supports you might consider yourself a “health systems change advocate”.

We developed this toolkit to highlight key resources your team can use to create and maintain a system for screening, treating and connecting patients to the quitline.

There are a few resources from the toolkit we think are so essential that we highlight them below. The resources are grouped by the role you may have: Health care and Community Service Providers, Support Staff, or Health Systems Change Advocates. Take a few minutes and find a resource that meets your needs.

It takes less than 3 minutes to ask about tobacco use, advise a patient to quit and connect them to the state quitline for access to free cessation services.

We have created a series of brief videos (less than 3 minutes each) to learn more about treating commercial tobacco use and how our program can help.

• How the Quitline Works
• Ask, Advise, Connect Brief Intervention
• How to Talk to Patients About Tobacco

There are also several high quality and free accredited learning opportunities available:

• QuitLogix Education For Iowa (National Jewish Health)
• Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation (UCSF Medical Center)
• Videos for Healthcare Providers (University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Innovation)

Here are a few key resources that you can download and print to help guide treatment with patients.

• Ask, Advise, Connect: Supporting Patients in Quitting Tobacco(PDF) (2 pp, 377 K, About PDF)
• Ask, Advise, Connect and Tobacco Dependence Medication: Frequently Asked Questions(PDF) (2 pp, 138 K)
• Provider Frequently Asked Questions about the Quitline(PDF) (1 pg, 871 K)
• Treating Tobacco Dependence Practice Manual(PDF) (24 pp, 968 K)
• Protocol for Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco(PDF) (7 pp, 633 K)
• Supporting youth who are addicted to nicotine: Advice for pediatricians(PDF) (1 pg, 142 K)

Staff play an essential role in screening and referring people who use commercial tobacco products to treatment and support. Here are a few resources to help you guide referrals in your setting.

Implementing cessation screening and referral workflows

• Referral to State Quitlines: A to Z (PDF) (34 pp, 2.7 MB)
• Treating Tobacco Dependence Practice Manual (PDF) (24 pp, 968 K)
• Quality Improvement Programs Relevant to Tobacco Dependence Treatment (PDF) (20 pp, 862 K)
• Integrating Tobacco Cessation Into Electronic Health Records (PDF) (2 pp, 105 K)
• Vaping/E-Cigarette Use Documentation in the Electronic Health Record(PDF) (1 pg, 124 K)
• Tobacco/E-Cigarettes Use/Exposure Coding Fact Sheet (PDF) (13 pp, 329 K)
• Billing Guide for Tobacco Screening and Cessation (PDF) (16 pp, 2.0 MB)

Information for exam rooms

• Ask, Advise, Connect: Supporting Patients in Quitting Tobacco (PDF) (2 pp, 377 K)

Informational videos and resources on quitline services and supporting patients

• How the Quitline Works
• Ask, Advise, Connect Brief Intervention Model
• How to Talk to Patients About How to Talk to Patients About Tobacco
• Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation
• Videos for Healthcare Providers

As a health system change advocate you have an important role in engaging and supporting health care and community service organizations. Here are a few key resources to help you support your partners.

• Referral to State Quitlines: A to Z(PDF) (34 pp, 2.7 MB)
• Ask, Advise, Connect: Supporting Patients in Quitting Tobacco(PDF) (2 pp, 377 K)
• Ask, Advise, Connect and Tobacco Dependence Medication: Frequently Asked Questions(PDF) (2 pp, 138 K)
• Provider Frequently Asked Questions about the Quitline(PDF) (1 pg, 871 K)
• Enhancing eReferral: A Strategy for Increasing Cessation Among Priority Populations and Encouraging Health System Change
• Integrating Tobacco Cessation Into Electronic Health Records(PDF) (2 pp, 105 K)
• Tobacco Cessation Change Packet: A Million Hearts Action Guide(PDF) (33 pp, 1.3 MB)
• Tobacco Health Systems Change Starter Toolkit for Clinics(PDF) (33 pp, 4.5 MB)