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Health care and community service providers and staff play an important role in helping people who use commercial tobacco products to quit. It is also important for state and local public health professionals to support screening and treating commercial tobacco use through broader health systems change efforts. When you engage in efforts to improve treatment supports you might consider yourself a “health systems change advocate”.

Provider speaking with patientWe developed this toolkit to highlight key resources your team can use to create and maintain a system for screening, treating and connecting patients to the quitline.

There are a few resources from the toolkit we think are so essential that we highlight them below. The resources are grouped by the role you may have: Health care and Community Service Providers, Support Staff, or Health Systems Change Advocates. Take a few minutes and find a resource that meets your needs.

 

Health Care and Community Service Providers

It takes less than 3 minutes to ask about tobacco use, advise a patient to quit and connect them to the state quitline for access to free cessation services.

Learn more about Ask, Advise, Connect

We have created a series of brief videos (less than 3 minutes each) to learn more about treating commercial tobacco use and how our program can help.
There are also several high quality and free accredited learning opportunities available:

Additional resources

Here are a few key resources that you can download and print to help guide treatment with patients.

Support Staff

Staff play an essential role in screening and referring people who use commercial tobacco products to treatment and support. Here are a few resources to help you guide referrals in your setting.

Implementing cessation screening and referral workflows

Information for exam rooms

Informational videos and resources on quitline services and supporting patients

Health System Change Advocates

As a health system change advocate you have an important role in engaging and supporting health care and community service organizations. Here are a few key resources to help you support your partners.