Quit Smoking                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Tip Sheet for quitting smoking {pdf} &  {in word} 

 

Brief 5A Intervention Video                                                                                                                                                                                       The video shows basic skills on how to discuss tobacco use with patients who smoke. To watch the video  click here  (you need RealPlayer to download the video)

 

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Center for Tobacco Treatment Research and Training

Public Service

The Center has been providing tobacco treatment training and technical assistance to health care providers across the state since the inception of the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program in 1993.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) Funded Training and Technical Assistance for Massachusetts Smoking Cessation Efforts contract with the MA Tobacco Control Program supports extensive work with hospitals, community health centers, and other public health programs such as WIC, the Women’s Health Network, and the Men’s Health Partnership, to implement recommended tobacco treatment guidelines. Current projects and initiatives include:

  • QuitWorks Training and Technical Assistance — QuitWorks is a DPH-sponsored fax-back telephone referral program that links providers and their patients with the Massachusetts smokers helpline. Call 1-800-TRY-TO-STOP or visit TrytoStop.org . Center staff serves on the planning group for QuitWorks and provides training to organizations across the state for implementation of the program. Information on QuitWorks can be found at www.quitworks.org. 
  • Ready, Set, Quit Campaigns - Community-based Programs— in partnership with MDPH, community health and social service agencies and local media, residents in selected cities are encouraged to call the quit line to receive 2-weeks of free nicotine patches.
  • Community Health Center Systems Change Grants— The Center provides technical assistance to community health centers that have been awarded DPH grants to improve systems related to tobacco intervention. Nineteen Massachusetts community health centers received these grants in FY ’08.
  • Promotion of the MassHealth Tobacco Cessation Benefit - Effective July 1st, 2006, Medicaid (MassHealth) recipients in Massachusetts have access to smoking cessation medications and counseling support. The Center has been instrumental in distributing this information to Massachusetts providers, and providing technical assistance to organizations on the implementation of this benefit. Both provider information and consumer materials on this benefit can be found at www.quitworks.org.
  • Multi-State Collaboration on Health Systems Change- a 13 state collaboration to share best practices and challenges. Organized by MDPH and supported by the Center.

ATTUD - Center staff members were among the founding members of The Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD), a new professional group dedicated to supporting tobacco treatment providers. Staff continues to provide leadership to ATTUD as it works towards the establishment of a national TTS certification process. Go to www.ATTUD.org for more information.

Smoke-Free Campus Initiative - Center staff has been instrumental in guiding the process for UMass Medical School and the UMass Memorial Health Care system to go tobacco-free on all campuses, to take effect May 27, 2008. This effort will include a full time Tobacco Treatment Specialist in the clinical system to provide tobacco treatment services to in-patients and employees.