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Tobacco Cessation Resources
Providing cessation support to employees, patients, and visitors is an important step in implementing a tobacco-free policy. Upon admittance, ask patients and/or visitors if they use tobacco products and if so offer them offer cessation resources and tobacco-abatement products. As part of your employee benefits, you can put several measures in place to assist staff members to stop using tobacco including full coverage or partial reimbursement for individual counseling, prescriptions for pharmaceutical therapy (including nicotine replacement products) and cessation programs or counseling sessions for groups.
Cessation Resources for Healthcare Professionals
- Cessation Benefit Fact Sheet: Boston Public Health Commission
- Clinical Practice Guidelines – Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
- Insurance Coverage Information
- New York State Tobacco Dependence Resource Center
- Quit Works
- Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
- Tobacco Cessation Leadership NetworkThe University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Tobacco Treatment Research and Training
- University of Michigan Guidelines for Clinical Care
Cessation Support Resources for Smokers
- American Cancer Society
- American Lung Association
- BPHC Flyer - Free Patch/Cessation Help for Boston Residents
- Make Smoking History
- Smokefree.gov
Cessation Resources for Substance Abuse and Psychiatric Providers
- Bringing Everyone Along Resource Guide: for health professionals providing tobacco cessation services to people with mental illness and substance use disorders, (2008)
- Nicotine Dependence and Smoking Cessation, New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services (2003)
- A Rationale and Model for Addressing Tobacco Dependence in Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention and Policy (2006)
- Smoking Policy and Treatment in State Operated Psychiatric Facilities, National Association of State Mental Health Directors (2006)
- The Tobacco, Addictions, Policy and Education (TAPE) Project: Services for BSAS Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
- Tobacco Free Living in Psychiatric Settings, National Association of State Mental Health Directors (2007)
- Tobacco Recovery Resource Exchange – free registration required, extensive online trainings for addiction specialists
- Tobacco Treatment for Persons with Substance Use Disorders: A Toolkit for Substance Abuse Treatment Providers, Signal Behavioral Health Network Colorado (2007)
- Tobacco Use Treatment for Persons with Mental Illness, Linda Thomas University of Michigan Health System (PowerPoint)
- Treatment of Tobacco Use in the Inpatient Psychiatric Setting, Psychiatric Services (2004)