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Smoking Cessation
Smoking Cessation Pocket Guide for Clinicians
Pocket Guide Files
VA Smoking Cessation Pocket Guide for
Clinicians
VA Pocket Guide.pdf
211k PDF file (link opens in new window)
VA Formulary Choices for Pharmacotherapy of
Smoking Cessation
Pharmacotherapy_Smoking_Cessation_table.doc
50k MS Word file (link opens in new window)
To order copies of the pocket guide ‘Helping
Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians’ from the VA
Publications Depot, please contact your local Forms
and Publications Control Officer and request that
they place an order for you. The information that
should be entered into the FPORDERS is IB 10-96,
P96189.
About The Pocket Guide
In Collaboration with Tobacco Free Nurses (TFN)
and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), the Public Health Strategic Health Care Group is
pleased to announce the publication of a new
resource for VHA health care professionals, a pocket
guide titled ‘Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for
Clinicians’. This guide was originally developed by
Tobacco Free Nurses and the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services and has been revised for
use by clinical providers in the VA Health Care
System. The pocket guide provides brief guidance on
the 5 A’s of smoking cessation counseling: Ask,
Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange. It also
provides a fold-out guide on suggestions for
clinical use of pharmacotherapy for smoking and
tobacco use cessation (please note that the
medication table is not included in the attached
PDF), as these medications are an important part of
evidence-based smoking cessation treatment.
The guide is a perfect tool for any health care
provider who is interested in providing brief
counseling as it covers the basics that can be
covered in a brief session. It also provides the
national number that will connect any smoker with
the telephone counseling quit line for his or her
state, 1-800-QUIT-NOW. Please consider ordering the
guide and distributing them to VA health care
providers in settings such as primary care, mental
health, medical specialty clinics, Vet Centers,
inpatient medical and psychiatric units, and other
clinical settings. The Smoking Cessation Pocket
Guide can also be a very helpful resource to help
orient medical residents and students, psychology
and social work interns, and nursing students to
smoking cessation counseling. The basic message
should be that if you are a provider who talks with
patients about any health behavior, you can talk
with them about tobacco use and provide brief
counseling as a first step to cessation. Many
patients who smoke will also benefit from a referral
to a smoking cessation specialty service. Brief
counseling and medication may be helpful to the
veteran who is unwilling or unable to attend a
specialty clinic but who is willing to make a quit
attempt with limited support from a provider that he
or she already knows. Smoking is still the leading
cause of preventable death and disease in the U.S.
and smoking cessation counseling has been
consistently found to be one of the most
cost-effective prevention interventions.
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