The Professional's Toolbox

Clinician Guides and Toolkits

A Practical Guide to Working with Health–Care Systems on Tobacco–Use Treatment
This guide was designed to increase public health professionals' comfort with and skill in establishing collaborative relationships with leaders of health-care systems and to facilitate the creation of long-term partnerships that promote effective system wide tobacco-use treatment.

CEASE: Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure
The CEASE Module was developed by child healthcare clinicians to help other child healthcare clinicians adjust their office setting to address parental tobacco use in a routine and effective manner.

2008 Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
This U.S. Public Health Service's 2008 update of the Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence includes new, effective clinical treatments for tobacco dependence and the latest information to help people quit smoking.

• Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (PDF)
  This is a quick how-to guide to assist clinicians in implementing the clinical practice guidelines.
• Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians (PDF)
  This pocket guide gives clinicians easy access to information to help their patients quit smoking. The tool is based on the "5 A's" approach to cessation intervention: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange, and offers other helpful resources.
• Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses (PDF)
  This pocket guide gives nurses easy access to information to help their patients quit smoking. The tool is based on the “5 A's” approach to cessation intervention: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange, and offers other helpful resources.

New! Improving Children's Health by Addressing Family Tobacco Use (PDF)
This presentation was co-developed by the Smoke Free Project at Children’s National Medical Center, the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center's Dissemination of Best Practice Project, and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Smoke Free Homes' Practical Smoking Cessation Counseling of Parents (PDF)
This presentation was developed by members of the Smoke Free Homes and the AAP Richmond Center's Dissemination of Best Practice projects, and the CEASE program.

Strategies for Smokers at Each Stage of Change (DOC)
This handout was developed by John Frohna, MD, MPH and the Pediatric Faculty Development Work Group.