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
  • Asian Smokers' Quitline

Clinical Guidelines

• NYC Tobacco Treatment Guide (PDF)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:
  • Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline
  • Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians (PDF)
• 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 Healthcare 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)

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.
• Nicotine Replacement Therapy (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.

Additional Resources

• Letter from the Health Commissioner About E-cigarette Lung Injury Outbreak (PDF)
• Pharmacy Guidance: Age Requirements for FDA-Approved Smoking Cessation Medications (PDF)
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• CDC: Smoking and Tobacco Use
• Surgeon General’s Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking — 50 Years of Progress, 2014
• Health Bulletin: E-cigarettes (PDF)
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More Information

• Tobacco use affects oral health. For more information and resources to support your patients, visit the Oral Health: Information for Providers page
• Smoking: NYC Quits
• Tobacco and E-Cigarette Retailers
• Smoke-Free Air Laws
• E-cigarettes