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Cessation (Quitting) Resources Helping Adult Smokers Quit American Cancer Society Quitting Tips www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10_3.asp?sitearea=PED This is a direct link to the American Cancer Society's (ACS) Quitting Tips page. The ACS offers a quitting guide and provides an interactive quiz to help you reveal your smoking patterns and build the best quit plan for you. American Legacy Foundation®: Quit Smoking The Quit Smoking section of this website provides links to resources and tips for quitting smoking. American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking ® Online Click on the Quit Smoking button and then the Smoking Cessation Support link to find the American Lung Association's popular Freedom From Smoking ® program, now available free online. Become An Ex Re-learn life without cigarettes. QuitNet QuitNet is an online cessation program that helps you design your own quit plan, lets you ask questions of expert counselors and get support from the QuitNet community. It has a calculator that helps you figure how much money you will save per year and how much time will be added to your life if you quit smoking now. Smokefree.gov This online guide will help you quit smoking. It gives reasons for quitting, prepares you to quit, talks about medicines that can help and explains how to manage your cravings, fight urges and keep your guard up. Helping Young Smokers Quit Quit4Life This site is a cessation program for teenagers. It gives reasons for quitting, prepares you to quit, talks about medicines that can help and explains how to manage your cravings, fight urges, and keep your guar up. Helping Pregnant Smokers Quit National Partnership For Smoke-Free Families http://www.helppregnantsmokersquit.org This is a coalition of diverse organizations that have joined forces to improve the health of this and future generations by increasing the number of pregnant smokers who quit smoking.
Helping Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) Smokers Quit IQuit http://www.IQuit.medschool.ucsf.edu This website is designed to provide and evaluate smoking treatments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender smokers. This smoking treatment research program has been developed by faculty from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) along with LGBT health professionals. Helping Smokeless Tobacco Users Quit ChewFree.com This site is funded by the National Cancer Institute and by the Oregon Research Institute, offering assistance to help spit-tobacco users quit mother of two, and by experts who help pregnant women stop smoking. Helping Providers Find Tobacco-Related Information Alliance for the Prevention and Treatment of Nicotine Addiction This site offers slides, handouts, training manuals and links for those working to reduce tobacco-caused morbidity and mortality. Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD) ATTUD is an organization of providers dedicated to the promotion of and increased access to evidence-based tobacco treatment for the tobacco user. Center for Tobacco Cessation (CTC) The CTC serves as a source for the best scientific information on tobacco cessation and works with national partners to expand the use of effective tobacco-dependence treatments. Handheld Computer Smoking Intervention Tool www.smokefree.gov/hp-hcsit.html The National Cancer Institute’s Handheld Computer Smoking Intervention Tool is designed for clinicians to assist with smoking cessation counseling at the point-of-care. This software was developed in partnership with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Virginia in accordance with current PHS guidelines. This easy-to-use program can be used with both Palm® and MicrosoftTM Pocket PC handheld computers. Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center The Mayo Nicotine Dependence Center in Rochester, Minn., offers a variety of programs to help people address their dependence on tobacco and has designed and provided clinical programs that have become the standard in many medical centers. The clinic holds a contract with the North Dakota Department of Health to provide counseling services for the North Dakota Tobacco Quitline. North American Quitline Consortium The North American Quitline Consortium seeks to unite health departments, quitline service providers, researchers and national organizations in the United States and Canada to enable these quitline professionals to learn from each other and to improve quitline services. Professional Assisted Cessation Therapy (PACT) The PACT is an independent consortium of smoking cessation therapy professionals. Smoking Cessation Leadership Center smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/index.html The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center is a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that aims to increase smoking cessation rates and increase the number of health professionals who help smokers quit. Surgeon General Guidelines for Cessation www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco This site defines the Surgeon General’s tobacco cessation guidelines. It includes resources for clinicians helping people to quit and resources for those who want to quit. You can view the information online or you can order printed copies of the materials. Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network This network links states and national cessation leaders to share information, resources and strategies. Tobacco Free! Helping Our Patients Be Tobacco Free This site offers a tobacco control curriculum available free to dental hygiene faculty. This program was developed at Southern Illinois University. Treatobacco.net This site offers a resource to anyone working on the treatment of tobacco dependence throughout the world. It is run by the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and is a collaborative initiative between public and private organizations. Treatobacco.net is currently available in 11 languages. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline (USPHS, 2000) www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/treating_tobacco_use.pdf This guideline from the Surgeon General presents recommendations for treatment of tobacco use based upon systematic literature review and analysis, peer-review process and expert panel opinion.
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