Free Kit: Help Your Patients Quit Smoking

You Are Key to Your Patients’ Success

According to the Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, a Clinical Practice Guideline issued by the U.S. Public Health Service, tobacco dependence is a chronic disease that often requires repeated intervention and multiple attempts to quit.

As a health care provider, your advice can double the chance your patient will make a quit attempt. And referring your patients to the California Smokers’ Helpline can double their chances of successfully quitting.

To make your job a little easier, the California Smokers’ Helpline has put together a Help Your Patients Quit Smoking Kit. This free Kit Includes:

• e-Pocket Guide: Help Your Patients Quit Smoking
• Fact Sheet: Tools for Helping Patients Quit Smoking
• Publication: Evidence of Real World Effectiveness of a Telephone Quitline for Smokers

In this free Kit, you will learn:

• How Helpline services have been scientifically proven in clinical trials to double a smoker’s chances of successfully quitting
• 3 steps health care providers can follow to help their patients quit
• Overview of Helpline services
• Easy reference chart for nicotine replacement therapy

Quitting smoking is the single most important action a person can take to improve his or her health. Request our Help Your Patients Quit Smoking Kit today to guide your patients to a successful attempt at quitting!