Published in September 2013, "Help Your Patients Quit Tobacco: An Implementation Guide for Community Health Centers" is a new, free guide to integrating tobacco cessation support in a health care setting. Some of the topics covered in the guide include:
- The “5 A’s – Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange (follow-up),” the gold standard evidence-based protocol for tobacco cessation interventions.
- Pharmacotherapy options for smoking cessation including dosage recommendations.
- Billing codes for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicare reimbursement for on-site cessation counseling.
- Realistic discussions of implementation challenges.
- Suggestions for how to chart tobacco screening and subsequent cessation interactions with patients.
For Marin-based information on cessation classes or in-person tobacco cessation education staff trainings, please contact Beth Lillard at Bay Area Community Resources see blillard@bacr.org, 415.755.2334. To find out more about BACR’s tobacco work, go to www.bacr.org/tobacco.