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
- 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
Clinical Guidelines
- NYC Tobacco Treatment Guide (PDF)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:
- Commissioner Letter: Guidance on Addressing E-cigarettes with Pediatric Patients (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.
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
- 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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