TobaccoFreeNurses: Cessation Resources for Health Professionals

This web site was designed to provide you with smoking cessation information, smoking research, international links, and information about trying to quit.  We have created an informative and useful tool for you to use as a reference and resource for tobacco intervention.  If you would like to share information with us, or have us place information on our site, please feel free to contact us , we'll be happy to hear from you.

Mission Statement

As the largest group of health care professionals, nurses have tremendous potential to effectively implement smoking cessation interventions and advance tobacco use reduction goals proposed by Healthy People 2010. The Tobacco Free Nurses’ mission is to ensure that the nursing profession is prepared to actively promote health by reducing nurses’ barriers to involvement in tobacco control, including lack of education, smoking among professionals, and lack of nursing leadership. Nurses must be equipped to assist with smoking cessation, prevent tobacco use, and promote strategies to decrease exposure to second hand smoke. The Tobacco Free Nurses initiative accomplishes its mission through:

1) Supporting and assisting smoking cessation efforts of nurses and nursing students;
2) Providing tobacco control resources for use in patient care;
3) Enhancing the culture of nurses as leaders and advocates of a smokefree society.

This is the first national initiative focused on providing support for nurses who smoke and establishing a framework for engaging nurses in tobacco use prevention and cessation.