Treatment

QuitNet

QuitNet, which operates in association with Boston University, has helped tens of thousands quit smoking through it's unique online community of smokers and ex-smokers. Since 1995 QuitNet has applied proven scientific methods to the Web to deliver personalized quitting plans, intensive social support, expert advice and pharmaceutical product support to tobacco users.

The Tobacco Free Nurses initiative has sponsored your Nurses QuitNet Membership through support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ. Just click here to register, it's free!

The AHRQ

A Guideline Panel, comprised of tobacco treatment experts, consortium representatives from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin Medical School, consultants and staff, produced the following Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. More information...

Implementing Cessation Intervention

The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario has released a new Nursing Best Practice Guideline called "Integrating Smoking Cessation into Daily Nursing Practice." Download the pdf file (83 pages).

Other Treatment Issues:

• Populations
• Intensive Interventions
• Motivational Factors
• Chronic Illness
• Pharmaceutical Options