Toolkits

Addressing Tobacco Use in Black Communities (American Lung Association)

Lung health disparities persist among Black Americans, especially in lung cancer incidence and menthol cigarette use. In anticipation of the Food and Drug Administration’s expected proposal to remove menthol cigarettes from the marketplace, the American Lung Association is actively working to address these disparities and the systemic issues that perpetuate them. ALA's Addressing Tobacco Use in Black Communities Toolkit features a variety of culturally competent resources, trainings, videos, and other relevant materials focused on three key objectives:

• Build Competence by learning about the racist history of tobacco in Black communities;
• Encourage Connectedness by learning how to be an authentic ally and building better community partnerships; and
• Confidence to Act with materials, resources, and trainings to equip toolkit users.

CA Quits Toolkit

CA Quits is a tobacco cessation learning collaborative for hospitals participating in the California Department of Health Care Services’ Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in the Medi‐Cal (PRIME) program. This learning collaborative is funded by the California Tobacco Control Program and builds off of the UC Quits project connecting the 5 UC health systems with the California Smokers’ Helpline at UC San Diego through bi‐directional e‐referrals for smoking cessation.

DIMENSIONS: Tobacco-Free Policy Toolkit

Do You CAARD? Provider Cessation Toolkit

California diabetes educator campaign and provider toolkit to help promote cessation and the Ask Advise Refer model. The toolkit can be used nationally. Visit the Do You CAARD? web site for more resources. 

Implementing Smoke-Free Laws

from Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANR)

Kansas Tobacco Guideline for Behavioral Health Care: an implementation toolkit

The Kansas Tobacco Guideline for Behavioral Health Care Toolkit was developed by the Public Health Law Center for NAMI Kansas and the Kansas Health Foundation, and contains Kansas-specific examples and case studies for behavioral health and substance use providers.

Million Hearts Tobacco Cessation Change Package

The Tobacco Cessation Change Package was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with the purpose of helping healthcare professionals in outpatient, inpatient, and behavioral health settings, as well as public health professionals who partner with these groups, to implement systems and strategies that improve care for patients who use tobacco.

Prevent Tobacco Use (CADCA)

The toolkit uses as its basis CADCA’s Seven Strategies for Effective Community Change, providing actions and strategies coalitions can use for each of the seven steps to achieve community change. The toolkit’s content is based on an environmental approach, with strategies aimed at changing or influencing community conditions, standards, institutions, structures, systems and policies.

The toolkit also includes fact sheets, success stories, and several helpful tools such as a sample logic model, a sample smoke-free ordinance and sample intervention maps to help coalitions craft their plan of action depending on the root causes of their community’s tobacco use problems and local conditions.

Tobacco Cessation and the Affordable Care Act

From the American Lung Association for factsheets, template letters, and other helpful tools at this site.

Tobacco Free Toolkit: For Community Health Facilities, National Edition