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web sites listed below will help you develop a proactive
approach to care for patients who use tobacco.
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Professional
Association Anti-Tobacco Initiatives |
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Treating
Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline
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Integrating
Tobacco Control in Healthcare Systems |
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Treating
Special Populations |
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Treating
Smokeless Tobacco Users
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Professional
Association Anti-Tobacco Initiatives |
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American
Academy of Family Physicians: Tobacco and Smoking
Learn the AAFP’s positions on tobacco treatment
and tobacco law. |
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American
Academy of Periodontology: More Information on Tobacco
Use and Periodontal Disease
Access the latest research about the relationship between
smoking cessation and periodontology. |
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American
Association for Respiratory Care: Tobacco Resources
Materials and information to help respiratory therapists
treat tobacco-using patients. |
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American
Association of Health Plans: Addressing Tobacco in Managed
Care
Learn how health plans can fight tobacco. |
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American
Dental Association: Tobacco and Nicotine
Learn the ADA’s positions on tobacco treatment and
tobacco law and see the ADA’s anti-tobacco public
service announcements. |
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American
Dental Hygienists' Association: Ask. Advise. Refer.
Material and Infromation to help dental hygienists treat
tobacco-using patients. |
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American
Medical Association: SmokeLess States National Tobacco
Policy Initiative
Learn what you can do to help the AMA in their fight against
tobacco. |
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Tobacco
Free Nurses
Created through a partnership of the American Association
of Colleges of Nursing, American Nurses Foundation,
American Nurses Association and the National Coalition
of Ethnic Minority Nurses Associations, this site helps
nurses help their patients quit smoking as well as quit
smoking themselves.
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| Treating
Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline |
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Treating
Tobacco Use and Dependence: Quick Reference Guide for
Clinicians
Summarizes the guideline |
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Treating
Tobacco Use and Dependence: Clinical Practice Guideline
Links to all the chapters in the complete guideline book. |
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Smokefree.gov:
Resources for Health Professionals
Multiple web resources designed to help providers treat
tobacco use and dependence.
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| Integrating
Tobacco Control into Healthcare Systems |
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Treating
Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Systems Approach
Six strategies recommended for health care administrators,
insurers, managed care organizations, and purchasers to
support clinicians in treating tobacco use and dependence. |
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Addressing
Tobacco in Managed Care: A Resource Guide for Health Plans
A step-by-step guide for implementing systems and policy
changes in health plans to promote tobacco control. |
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Professional
Assisted Cessation Therapy (PACT)
Download two excellent toolkits: Reimbursement for
Smoking Cessation Therapy: A Health Care Practitioner’s
Guide and Employers’ Smoking Cessation Guide:
Practical Approaches to a Costly Workplace Problem
(which emphasizes purchasing health plans with tobacco
cessation benefits). |
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JCAHO
Hospital Core Measures
Treating tobacco use is included in the following core
measures: Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) measure 4,
Heart Failure (HF) measure 4, and Community Acquired Pneumonia
(CAP) measures 4a and 4b. |
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Practical
Strategies to Help Your Patient Quit Hospital Program
This step-by-step guide explains how to start a hospital-based
cessation program, based on the PHS Guideline
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| Treating
Special Populations of Tobacco Users |
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Smoke-Free
Families: Care Professionals
Learn how to help pregnant patients stop using tobacco. |
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The
Provider’s Guide to Quality & Culture
This guide helps health care providers to develop
cultural competency. |
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Resources
for Health Professionals
The smokefree.gov web site was created by the Tobacco
Control Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute,
with important contributions from other nationally recognized
agencies and organizations.
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| Treating
Smokeless Tobacco Users |
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National
Spit Tobacco Education Program
How to break the tie between baseball and smokeless tobacco. |
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Spit
Tobacco: A guide for Quitting
This user-friendly website by the National Institutes
of Health teaches spit tobacco users how to quit. |
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Texas
Cancer Data Center: Spit Tobacco Background Information
Describes the mechanisms through which smokeless tobacco
causes dental problems.
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