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Tobacco Cessation Tool Kit
Executive Summary
 The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) has developed an evidence-based Tobacco Cessation Tool Kit to aid physicians, nurses, and cessation counselors in assisting their tobacco-using patients with the cessation process. The goals include treating tobacco use as a chronic addictive medical condition and offering brief interventions at every office visit. This kit includes multiple implementation tools based on the US DHHS Guideline on Tobacco Use and Dependence. These evidence-based and pilot-tested tools can be used to more consistently and effectively intervene with patients who smoke or chew tobacco:
- Pharmacotherapy Grid (includes prescribing information, side effects, and contraindications)
- US Public Health Service Guidelines hotlink and ordering information
- Chart Stickers (to ID current, former and never users)
- Assessment of Tobacco Risk Factors Questionnaire
- Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence
- Encounter Checklist
- Two Patient Education brochures [Spanish and English] developed by the ACCP to (1) motivate the user to want to quit and (2) provide a how-to guide to tobacco cessation
- Quit Contracts
- List of national, state, and local Referral Sources
- Follow-Up Guide to direct subsequent phone calls
- Rewards for success
- Consultation Reports
The Tobacco Cessation Tool Kit also provides educational information on the biology of nicotine addiction, treating nicotine addiction as a chronic disease, multimodality treatment approaches, cost-benefits, motivating patients to quit, and relapse prevention, among other pertinent topics. New to this edition is the introductory video, which demonstrates the ease of implementation of the tool kit into an office–based practice.
Each tool may be reproduced, as needed, for the educational or clinical use of the patients, including the popular patient education guides "Thinking About Quitting Tobacco?" and "How To Quit Using Tobacco." These guides are now available in both Spanish and English.
The ACCP Tobacco Cessation Tool Kit was highly evaluated in both a pilot test in 2002 and a reevaluation in 2003 funded by Tobacco Settlement Funds through a grant from the Cook County (Illinois) Department of Public Health.
The ACCP has received considerable positive responses to the Tobacco Cessation Tool Kit, including the following comments from a nurse at a City of Chicago Public Health Clinic:
Thank you so much for the Tobacco Cessation Tool Kit. I have used the information often, and have praised your work to all the providers that I collaborate with... and to express my appreciation for sharing your Tool Kit with me, I appreciated it so much.
Dr. Michael Fiore, lead author of the US DHHS guidelines, commends the ACCP Tobacco Cessation Tool Kit:
It provides a great variety of practical tools combined with evidence based information to help busy clinicians and health care delivery systems implement effective interventions.
What's New in the Second Edition
Users of the first edition will find the following improvements and updates to this second edition of the Tobacco Cessation Tool Kit:
- Format: CD-ROM.
- Introductory training video (8 minutes) that informs the viewer how to implement this program and these tools into their practice (can be followed for hospital-based and community cessation programs even though the video is filmed in an office-based setting.
- All educational materials are updated to the current information, although still founded on the evidence-based guidelines from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
- The pharmacotherapeutic reference grid is updated to include the nicotine lozenges, which received FDA approval after the first edition was published.
- A new tool is provided to guide the nurse or cessation counselor in follow-up phone calls to solicit progress, problems encountered, and questions that the patient may want to ask, as well as to verify compliance with the treatment regimen.
- The popular patient education brochures (one to motivate the resistant patient to want to attempt quitting and the other is a how-to guide) are now available in both English and Spanish.
- All tools may be printed right from the CD. Both English and Spanish versions of "Thinking About Quitting
Tobacco?" and "How To Quit Using Tobacco" are still available in beautiful two-color printed versions sold in bulk from the ACCP. Order form is included on the CD.
- The referral and resource list is updated.
- Data from the pilot test and subsequent re-evaluation of the TCTK is provided.
- Testimonials (just a few) from users of the first edition are included.
Purchase the Tool Kit
The cost is $30 per Kit. The two patient education guides (Thinking About Quitting Tobacco? And How To Quit Using Tobacco) are available in packages of 25 for $15.
You may also purchase by phone by calling (800) 343-2227 or (847) 498-1400.
Contact Information
Sandra Zelman Lewis, PhD
Research Specialist
American College of Chest Physicians
(847) 498-1400 |
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