For Clinicians
All health care providers, especially those with direct patient contact, have a unique opportunity to help tobacco users quit. Smokers cite a doctor's advice to quit as an important motivator for attempting to stop smoking.
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update鈥擟linical Practice Guideline
References
Tobacco reference materials and guides for health care providers
Presentations
For public use, these slides are based on the Public Health Service (PHS)-Sponsored Clinical Practice Guideline鈥擳reating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update. They include many of the evidence tables and recommendations contained in this clinical practice guideline.
Tearsheets
Materials for health care providers to use.