Smoking Cessation Clinical Resource Area

Smoking Cessation Area provides links to high quality information resources to assist oncology nurses and the patients that they care for. Evidenced based guidelines to support smoking cessation are included.

Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses (PDF)
If the 2.2 million working nurses in the U.S. each helped one person per year quit smoking, nurses would triple the U.S. quit rate. This guide will assist you in implementing a system in your clinical setting that ensures that tobacco-use status is obtained and recorded at every patient contact.

Smoking Cessation
Medline Plus information resources related to smoking cessation. Contains many useful links from trusted sources including NIH, NCI, ACS and other National organizations.

Surgeon General's Tobacco Cessation Guideline
Clinical guidelines and recommended counseling techniques for treating tobacco use and dependence. The tobacco cessation guideline was developed by a consortium convened by the U.S. Public Health Service. More than 100 national organizations supported this effort.

Tobacco Free Nurses
Tobacco Free Nurses is the first national program focused on helping nurses and student nurses to stop smoking. Together with QuitNet we have created a smoking cessation site tailored for nurses and nursing students who want to quit smoking.