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.
New Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) Toolkit
NRT can be a useful medication support tool for all patients who smoke, even if they are not ready to quit. NRT can help patients manage nicotine withdrawal symptoms or cravings when in situations where they can’t smoke, while building interest and self-efficacy around quitting in the future. The toolkit includes resources to support using this new approach, both for patients and healthcare or social service providers.
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)
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 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)
- How Can I Get Tobacco Treatment Medications? Insurance Guide (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.
- 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 and Preventing Relapse webpage. A sample of new resources is included below:
- Commissioner of Health Letter (PDF)
- How to Use Tobacco Treatment Medications Pocket Guide (PDF)
- Exploring Myths and Facts About Tobacco Use (PDF)
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)
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- 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