Clinical Cessation Tools
The resources below present the most recent evidence and clinical guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence. You will also find usable tools to guide your practice and help you integrate tobacco treatment into routine clinical care.
- You Can Help Your Patients Quit Tobacco Use [PDF–773 KB] 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 Tobaccopdf icon [PDF–646 KB] 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 [PDF–1.07 KB] 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.external iconexternal icon The Guide to Community Preventive Services is 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 secondhand smoke exposure.
The resources below present the most recent evidence and clinical guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence. You will also find usable tools to guide your practice and help you integrate tobacco treatment into routine clinical care.
- You Can Help Your Patients Quit Tobacco Use [PDF–773 KB] 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 Tobaccopdf icon [PDF–646 KB] 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 [PDF–1.07 KB] 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.
- Brief Tobacco Intervention Pocket Card [PDF–103 KB] Use this pocket card as a quick-reference for the 5As and AA-R approaches to brief clinical tobacco cessation interventions.
- 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.
- Million Hearts® Tools for Clinicians and Health Systems
- Protocol for Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco [PDF–633 KB] 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 [PDF–339 KB] 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 [PDF–796 KB] 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.
- The Community Guide.external iconexternal icon The Guide to Community Preventive Services is 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 secondhand smoke exposure.
Counseling and Medication Can Help Your Patients Quit Smoking.
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- Protocol for Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco [PDF–633 KB] 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 [PDF–339 KB] 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 [PDF–796 KB] 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.
Tobacco Cessation Change Package Tutorial Video.
Tobacco use and dependence is treatable, and this tutorial video can help you take critical steps to make smoking cessation treatment a part of routine patient care.
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Page last reviewed: December 8, 2021
