County of Marin Health and Human Services

New Support for Your Tobacco Cessation Efforts

Help Your Patients Quite Tobacco Use Guide Cover

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

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