Information on Smoking and Tobacco Use for Clinicians
As a clinician, you play a vital role in helping your patients attain a tobacco-free life. You can help them quit smoking by using proven and effective treatments for nicotine dependence, including medications and brief counseling.
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:
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
- Treating Tobacco Use Online Learning Module: This module provides primary health care providers, including those in training, with evidence-based information to help their patients quit smoking. One CME credit is available.
- 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.
Additional Resources
- How to Order Provider and Patient Materials Form (PDF)
- CDC: Smoking and Tobacco Use
- Surgeon General’s Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking — 50 Years of Progress, 2014