Helping Patients Quit Tobacco: Training and Videos for Clinicians

Why clinicians matter

Talking with patients about quitting tobacco, and tracking their progress, shows them you are on their side. If you're not sure how to start the conversation, these evidence-based training programs help:

• Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation — a comprehensive program for health professionals of every discipline.
• University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention — training videos for outpatient, inpatient and behavioral health providers, including motivational interviewing.
• University of Arizona HealthCare Partnership — nicotine dependence treatment continuing education and certification.

Six short CDC videos

Counseling and medication can help your patients quit. Helping patients quit is one of the most important things you can do for their health.

Advise your patients to quit. Quitting helps at any age, however long someone has smoked.

Tobacco dependence is treatable — and you can play a critical role.

Quitlines support your patients. When patients call a quitline, trained counselors help them make a quit plan, discuss medications and connect them to other free help. Refer patients to their state quitline through 1-800-QUIT-NOW.

Quitlines can help your patients quit — especially combined with your support.

Help your pregnant patients quit — for their health and their baby's.

CDC videos. Audio-described versions are on CDC's page.

More for clinicians

Clinical cessation tools and patient materials · quitlines and other resources · cessation in different care settings · CDC.gov/TobaccoHCP

Sources

Based on "Clinical Education and Training," Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; a work of the United States government in the public domain. The videos are CDC's own low-resolution files.