Information on Smoking, Tobacco and E-cigarette Use for Clinicians
As a clinician, you play a vital role in helping your patients attain a tobacco-free life. You can use the resources below to help your adult patients quit smoking, or prevent the use of tobacco products and e-cigarettes among your pediatric patients.
Clinical Tools
- Youth Tobacco and E-Cigarette Prevention Action Kit
- Tobacco, E-Cigarettes and Alternative Products: Product Guide for Pediatric Providers (PDF)
- Quit Smoking Resources for Consumers and Providers (PDF)
- Smoking Cessation Medication Prescribing Chart (PDF)
- Help Your Patients Quit Smoking Coaching Guide (PDF)
- Tobacco Quit Kit
- Oral Health and Smoking Quit Kit
- Refer Your Patients to the New York State Smokers' Quitline
- What is your relationship with tobacco? Quiz (PDF)
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Clinical Guidelines
- NYC Tobacco Treatment Guide (PDF)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:
- Commissioner Letter: Guidance on Addressing E-cigarettes with Pediatric Patients (PDF)
- Tobacco, E-Cigarettes and Alternative Products: Anticipatory Guidance, Screening and Treatment for Pediatric Providers (PDF)
Information on Billing and Insurance
- Information about the New York State Medicaid Benefit
- New York State Tobacco Cessation Counselling Information and Billing Codes (PDF)
- New York State and New York City Joint Commissioner Letter to Health Care Providers (PDF). This letter describes the Medicaid benefit and changes in FDA guidance for nicotine replacement therapy.
- Billing Guide for Tobacco and E-Cigarettes Screening and Counseling for New York State (PDF)
- How Can I Get Tobacco Treatment Medications? Insurance Guide (PDF)
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Clinician Trainings
- Tobacco Cessation Training and Technical Assistance Center (TCTTAC): Provides training and technical assistance to behavioral health providers to treat tobacco use among people with mental health, substance use or co-occurring disorders.
- NRT Training Video: Be Free with NRT is a 15-minute video that highlights the benefits of NRT regardless of readiness to quit. This video can be shared with people who smoke, as well as staff and clinicians.
- A toolkit of materials to support this new approach — using NRT regardless of readiness to quit — is available on the Coping with Nicotine Withdrawal webpage. A sample of new resources is included below:
- Commissioner of Health Letter (PDF)
- How to Use Tobacco Treatment Medications Pocket Guide (PDF)
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Additional Resources
- Clinical Guidance: Recreational Nicotine is Not Nicotine Replacement Therapy (PDF)
- Letter from the Health Commissioner About E-cigarette Lung Injury Outbreak (PDF)
- Pharmacy Guidance: Age Requirements for FDA-Approved Smoking Cessation Medications (PDF)
Other Languages: Español | 中文 | 简体中文 | Русский | 한국어 | العربية - CDC: Smoking and Tobacco Use
- Health Bulletin: E-cigarettes (PDF)
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More Information
- Smoking: NYC Quits
- Tobacco and E-Cigarette Retailers
- E-cigarettes
- Lung Cancer
- Cancer Prevention and Screening
- Smoke-Free Air Laws
- Tobacco use affects oral health. For more information and resources to support your patients, visit the Oral Health: Information for Providers page