Below is a compilation of existing cessation tools to help clinicians and others who want to intervene with tobacco.
The list includes everything from quit now wallet cards, relapse protocol, smokefree hospital toolkits, videos, behavioral health resources and more. Many come from a variety of health professional organizations and individuals dedicated to tobacco cessation. Most tools are free for any user, and a few can be purchased at nominal cost. Click below to learn more about a specific topic or download the complete Catalogue of Tools for your own easy reference. For more behavioral health resources and tools CLICK HERE.

General Resources for Providers

• Presentations by leading experts
• Publications
• Toolkits
• Video
• Courses and Trainings
• Online Programs to help smokers quit
• Resource Links
• Other Materials (fact sheets, guides, posters and other print materials)
• Taking a hospital smoke free
• Speakers Bureau
  SCLC has established itself as a credible source of technical assistance. As callers and web visitors began inquiring about speakers, presenters, and experts that might participate in their various conferences and events. SCLC has gradually developed a lengthy list of possible presenters, including our own staff, and frequently provided names as well as topics. For inquiries and availability contact the SCLC at csaucedo@medicine.ucsf.edu.
• Tobacco Free for Recovery Communiqué
• Stop Smoking Today! What works.
• National 1-800-QUIT NOW Cards

• Behavioral Health Tools and Resources

Presentations by Leading Experts

All presentations are available upon request. Please contact us if you would like a copy of the PowerPoint document via e-mail.

SAMHSA In-Service Training

• Tobacco Dependence Treatment - - Dr. Steven A. Schroeder
• The Unmet Needs of Smokers with Mental Illness or Addiction- Jill M. Williams,MD
• Smoking Cessation for People with Mental or Substance Use Disorders - Chad D. Morris, PhD
• Tobacco Dependence Treatment - A consumer perspective - Consumer Tobacco Peer Advocate, Eric Arauz

SCLC Annual 2008 Meeting

• 2008PHS Clinical Practice Guideline
• Pharmacy Partnership for Tobacco Cessation
• The ASA Smoking Cessation Initiative
• Washington Quits!
• Labor
• The National Mental Health Partnerhip for Wellness and Smoking Cessation
• ADHA SCI initiative

NCTOH 07

• Maximizing the Power of Partnerships: Engaging Smokers and the Mental Health Community
• Are the 5 A's Enough?: Tobacco Dependence Treatment for Smokers with Mental Illness
• Engaging Healthcare Providers in Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Cessation

Other Presentations

• What to Do With a Patient Who Smokes
• 30 Seconds To Save A Life: What Busy Clinicians Can Do
• Building Partnerships, Changing Norms: First 5 Years of the SCLC
• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence - The OBGYN Patient
• SCLC Partnerships
• Tobacco Use in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Populations
• Mental Health and Smoking Cessation- Lansdowne Summit
• What Works in Mental Health

Publications

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Toolkits

• Destination Tobacco-Free: A Practical Tool for Hospitals and Health Systems
• Make It Your Business - Educate labor groups, employers, and insurance agents about effective tobacco cessation benefits with the revised employer’s toolkit, Make It Your Business: Insure a Tobacco-Free Workforce. The guide is available under the Employee Tools tab at http://www.makeityourbusiness.net  and was distributed by partners who work with businesses on health and wellness issues.
• Tobacco-free Living in Psychiatric Settings NASMHPD Toolkit - provides practical tips for converting facilities to smokefree status. Visit the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors website at http://www.nasmhpd.org/publicationsmisc.cfm for more NASMHPD publications.
  
• Healthy Hospitals Initiative - smokefree hospital toolkit
• Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Implementation Program - Pharmacist-Assisted Class: Implementation Guide
• NEW 2009 Smoking Cessation for Persons with Mental Health Illness- A Toolkit for Mental Health Providers - offers step by step instructions for providers to help their patients quit smoking. Developed by our partners at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and revised for nationwide use by a committee of experts in behavioral health, primary care and public health, this user-friendly guide has been revised to meet the needs of a broad continuum of behavioral health providers and clinicians.
• Do You CAARD? Provider Cessation Toolkit - California diabetes educator campaign and provider kit to help promote cessation and the Ask Advise Refer model.
• A toolkit for implementing smoke-free laws
     
  

Video

• American Society for Anesthesiologists Quit Smoking
• “Smoking, Hazards and Solutions in Long-Term Care,”  video & study guide presented  by  Georgia Stevens, PhD, APRN, BC. Note - There is a fee for this video: $150 purchase; $75 rental.
• What Happens When You Call 1 800 QUIT NOW? National Cancer Institute

Courses and Trainings

• RX FOR CHANGE -Clinician Assisted Tobacco Cessation Curriculum http://rxforchange.ucsf.edu
  A comprehensive tobacco cessation education tool that provides not only clinicians and students, but also clinical staff, with the knowledge and skills necessary to offer comprehensive tobacco cessation counseling to patients who use tobacco. It covers information about the epidemiology of tobacco use, pharmacotherapy, and brief behavioral interventions.
• RxAbridged Curriculum -Using the brief intervention Ask Advise Refer, this three-hour curriculum that has been specifically designed for pharmacy technicians, medical assistants, dental hygienists, and all other ancillary and auxiliary professions interested in becoming cessation interventionists.
• Rx for Change, Tobacco Free for Recovery - this three hour online training provides valuable information on key terms and definitions related to tobacco use, why it is important to quit smoking, the different types of tobacco products and why they are addictive, what helps people to quit smoking, and how to help people quit. Participants were invited to ask questions, provide comments, and participate in the activities and discussion that took place during the training.  While this curriculum is tailored to meet the needs of mental health peer counselors, it is a helpful training tool for any provider or advocate interested in learning more about mental health and smoking cessation.

CLICK HERE to download a PowerPoint copy of the Rx for Change, Tobacco Free for Recovery Oct. 14 webinar training

CLICK HERE to hear a recording of the Rx for Change, Tobacco Free for Recovery webinar. Forward this link to others to allow them to play back the recording.

https://rwjf.webex.com/rwjf/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=33310962&rKey=06a593d1dc7b7d17

Rx for Change and the other Rx online series (psychiatry, wellness) is available for free via its website on http://rxforchange.ucsf.edu where registered users are free to download the curriculum, trigger tapes, handouts, and brief videos


• American Academy of Family Physicians Ask and Act initiative
  • Treating Tobacco Dependence -- View this webcast to learn about new pharmacotherapies, counseling strategies, quick interventions and reimbursement.
  • Become a Tobacco Aware Practice: Using an Organizational and Team-based Approach -- View this webcast to learn how to structure your office to identify tobacco users, and streamline your efforts to help them quit. This webcast is for your entire practice team.
  • Beyond the Guidelines: Advances in Tobacco Cessation Treatment and Payment -- View this webcast to learn about evidence-based treatment, effective counseling strategies and reimbursement. Available for up to 2.0 Prescribed CME credits through April 24, 2008.
  • How to Provide Tobacco Cessation Treatment to Patients with Mental Illness--This interview with family physician Julie Wood, MD, gives an overview of how and why physicians should address tobacco use with their patients with mental illnesses. Dr. Wood discusses effective forms of counseling and pharmacotherapy. The podcast is one component of the AAFP's efforts to educate family physicians on effective tobacco cessation treatment for patients with mental illness. The AAFP has also created a new section on the Ask and Act website titled "Smoking and Mental Illness" and added mental health slides to CME presentations.
• Smoking Cessation Continuing Education Program - In an effort the increase awareness and referrals for smoking cessation among people with diabetes who smoke the Diabetes Educator Do you cAARd? Taskforce, the California Diabetes Program, the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, and the California Smoker's Helpline have developed an educational web-based program for health care providers nationally.
• Tobacco Cessation Counseling: A Protocol for Pharmacists American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists & the National Pharmacy Partnership for Tobacco Cessation offers online tobacco cessation training for pharmacists and other clinicians. Access is not restricted and participants may earn free creditsBrief Intervention Protocol for Assisting Patients with Tobacco Cessation - ASHP commentary on Pharmacists as tobacco interventionists

Online Programs To Help Your Patients Quit

• http://becomeanex.org/home.aspx
  
• www.smokefree.gov
  
• The American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking Online
  
• www.quitnet.com
  
• www.tobaccofreeca.com
  
• www.smokeclinic.com
  
• www.nicotine-anonymous.org
• More Online cessation programs...
  

More Tobacco Cessation Resource Links

For specific information on mental health and smoking cessation, visit our Behavioral Health Resources page.

Other Materials

All materials are available for download. Please contact us if you have any questions about any of these documents.

• 2008 Public Health Service Guideline - Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update includes new, effective clinical treatments for tobacco dependence and the latest information to help people quit smoking visit www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/ for free provider and patient materials.
• Partnership for Prevention ® and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - have developed Healthcare Provider Reminder Systems, Provider Education, and Patient Education: Working with Healthcare Delivery Systems to Improve the Delivery of Tobacco-Use Treatment to Patients?An Action Guide . This evidence-based tool is for public health practitioners, healthcare providers, and others interested in increasing delivery of tobacco-use treatment in clinical settings. Links to tools and resources, tips for implementation and overcoming potential obstacles, suggested resource needs, and questions and potential data sources for evaluation planning are also included. Visit http://www.prevent.org/actionguides/Tobacco-UseTreatment to download or order this tool.
• Relapse Smoker Protocol - What to do with a smoker who is ready to try again
• Diabetes and Tobacco Fact Sheet for Providers
• Do You CAARD? Provider Cessation Toolkit - California diabetes educator campaign and provider kit to help promote cessation and the Ask Advise Refer model.
• Healthy Hospitals Initiative - smokefree hospital toolkit
• Sample Hospital In Patient Rx guide
• Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Implementation Program - Pharmacist-Assisted Class: Implementation Guide
• Ask Advise Refer Provider Poster
• AAFP Pharmacologic Product Guide: FDA-approved medications
• 1 800 QUIT NOW Patient Poster
• The Myth about NRT
• Nicotine/Drug Interactions
• Where are we Now? Baseline Posters for Mental Health
• Mental Health & Smoking Fact Sheet
• Medicaid Fact Sheet Survey
• Taking Hospital smokefree
• Tobacco-free Living in Psychiatric Settings NASMHPD Toolkit - provides practical tips for converting facilities to smokefree status.

Behavioral Health Tools and Resources

Once SCLC established itself as a credible source of technical assistance, callers and web visitors began inquiring about speakers, presenters, and experts that might participate in their various conferences and events. SCLC has gradually developed a lengthy list of possible presenters, including our own staff, and frequently provided names as well as topics. For inquiries and availability contact the SCLC at csaucedo@medicine.ucsf.edu .