TobaccoFreeNurses - Helping Nurses to Stop Smoking

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Nurses and Tobacco Control Pre-conference Workshop

830am-430pm, March 7, 2009

14th World Conference on Tobacco Or Health in Mumbai, India

Nurses, 13 million strong, can be a powerful force in the global fight against the tobacco epidemic. This special, one-day pre-conference workshop will promote the development of a new global network of nurses in tobacco control to enhance capacity building. Please confirm attendance or request further information from: Ms Lisa Chang or Dr. Marjorie Wells.

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Tobacco Free Nurses is the first national program created with the objectives of helping nurses quit, providing resources to nurses who want to help their patients quit and to promote tobacco control in the agenda of nursing organizations.

Helping Patients Quit Smoking: A Guide for Nurses

Developed by USDHHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in collaboration with Tobacco Free Nurses, this guide helps nurses encourage patients to quit smoking. Read more, download the guide as a PDF or view the guide online.

Our secret weapon against smoking? Each other. Tobacco Free Nurses recognizes the power that the 3 million nurses in the US can have in making difference in the nation’s efforts to combat the tobacco epidemic and seeks to foster the pivotal role of nurses in tobacco control.

On this website nurses will find numerous resources specifically targeted to nurses, including a library of references written by or about nurses and tobacco control, evidence-based resources to use in clinical practice, media materials for free download with various fact sheets about nurses and smoking. Please note that the “Helping Smokers Quit” tab is only available to nurses participating in one of our current research studies.

A free resource, which has proven to be effective in helping many people quit, is the national telephone Quitline, 1-800-Quit Now (800-784-8669). Callers receive one-on-one counseling and follow up. Where available, you will be referred to your state’s quitline.