Health Care Providers:
Why refer to Quitline?
- Open 7 days a week, with bilingual and TTY services available
- Quit line specialist will collect a comprehensive tobacco-use history on the caller
- Positive counseling sessions that then lead to facilitation of reduced cost nicotine replacement therapy if caller qualifies.
- Relapse prevention strategies.
- Current printed materials are sent to caller in the mail.
- Telephonic surveying to measure effectiveness.
How to help patient access program:
- If a prescription medication is needed, please provide a prescription for patient first.
- Have patient call 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)
- Patient will answer questions with an intake specialist from the American Cancer Soceity.
- Patient will choose their form of support, telephone counseling or on line counseling.
- Teens, pregnant women and smokeless tobacco users will receive counseling and information that pertains to their individual needs.
What cessation medications are available:
- Without a prescription, patches, gum and lozenges are available for those who pass a medical screening questionnaire.
- With a prescription Chantix, Wellbutrin, Zyban, Nicotine nose spray and Nicotine inhaler are available.
The Five Major Steps to Intervention
(The 5 A's)
Ask
Do you ask your patients, every visit, if they use tobacco?
Advise
Do you advise your patients to quit using tobacco?
Assess
Do you assess willingness to quit
Assist
Do you assis in your patient's quit attempts?
Arrange
Do you arrange follow-up?