Links
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care
www.atmc.wisc.edu - National initiative working to promote the integration of effective smoking cessation interventions into the basic health care provided by managed care organizations. Resources include listing of grantees, literature review and searchable database of recent articles on the processes and practices used by managed care organizations (MCOs) to provide smoking cessation treatment to patients.
Freedom From Smoking Online Cessation Program
www.lungusa.org/ffs - Online, self-help program developed by the American Lung Association. Offers a seven-module program to help smokers move from readiness to quit to successful quitting.
Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
www.ctri.wisc.edu - The Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention is an academic center dedicated to advancing the science of tobacco dependence and its treatment and to providing effective intervention and outreach services for children and adults. Site contains link to free CME course, clinician packet and patient-oriented materials.
Counseling for Change
northwestahec.wfubmc.edu/learn/smokingcessation - A learning opportunity in five lessons for health care professionals. The online module will help providers explore the principles of the behavior change model and provides a brief smoking cessation intervention for use when counseling patients to quit smoking.
Professional Assisted Cessation Therapy (PACT)
www.endsmoking.org - An independent consortium of leaders in the treatment of tobacco dependence whose mission is to lower barriers to broader utilization of cessation therapy through education and advocacy. Site contains the Office Smoking Cessation Assistance Resource (OSCAR), with downloadable materials for office staff (fact sheets, waiting room posters, desk attention getters, record keeping forms), physicians (assessment strategies, intervention tactics, medication data, checklists) and patient-oriented materials. The site also contains, "Reimbursement for Smoking Cessation Therapy: A Healthcare Practitioner's Guide," with information on how to obtain reimbursement for smoking cessation counseling.
Smoke-Free Families (SFF): Innovations to Stop Smoking During and Beyond Pregnancy
www.smokefreefamilies.org - A national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is working to identify and disseminate evidence-based approaches to improving smoking cessation rates during pregnancy. Site contains materials and booklets for prenatal providers and patient-oriented materials for pregnant women.
The Tobacco Free Project's Stop Smoking Program
sfsmokefree.org - Program of the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Community Health Promotion and Prevention Branch. Site contains prescribing information, with notations for which medications are covered by Medi-Cal, and multilingual patient materials.
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Guidelines
www.ahrq.gov - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality pathfinder for the Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence guidelines provides practical health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues. Site contains link to the national clinical guidelines, as well as patient and provider-oriented materials.
Treatobacco
Visit WHO/SRNT's www.treatobacco.net for up-to-date, independent, authoritative, evidence-based summaries on the treatment of tobacco dependence, in 9 languages. Site contains evidence-based information about the treatment of tobacco dependence, under five headings: efficacy, safety, demographics and health effects, health economics and policy.