Snuffing out smoking Nixing nicotine: Free resources to help your patients quit smoking The CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health has free, evidence-based resources to help you support your patients’ quit attempts. April 9, 2019Tuesday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics addiction medicineCDCpatient caresmoking Editor’s note: The AOA has partnered with the CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers® campaign to help raise awareness of the free quit-smoking resources the agency offers health care professionals in order to help people quit for good. This content has been updated for 2019. Nearly 7 in 10 American adult cigarette smokers want to quit, according to 2015 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Evidence-based resources The CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health has free, evidence-based resources to help you support your patients’ quit attempts. Its successful Tips From Former Smokers® (Tips®) campaign offers resources that can be used to complement efforts to help patients successfully give up smoking. More than 500,000 people have quit for good as a result of the campaign, according to the CDC. You can be a part of the campaign by helping your patients quit smoking for good so they can live healthier lives. The health care professionals section of the Tips website includes a handout for patients listing important reasons to quit and a conversation card that offers suggestions on how to have a discussion about quitting with your patients. How to quit smoking The how to quit smoking section of the Tips website offers smokers myriad suggestions to start their quit attempt/journey. Physician practices can consider linking to this page on their websites to share this resource with patients, along with listing the free 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) quit line for English speakers and 1-855-DÉJELO-YA (1-855-335-3569) for Spanish speakers. Additional resources for clinicians include Tips-branded “Talk With Your Health Care Team” posters. Health care providers can order notepads that ask “Need help quitting smoking?” You can also visit the Tips Download Center for ads to display or play in your waiting room. More in Patient Care Enhanced payment to support longitudinal care: The new E/M complexity add-on code G2211 The office/outpatient E/M visit complexity add-on code was established to improve payment for the time, intensity and practice expense resources involved when physicians furnish O/O E/M office visit services that enable them to build longitudinal relationships with patients. The dark side of semaglutide: Gastric emptying delays pose a risk when undergoing surgery Semaglutide, hailed as a weight loss miracle, is facing new scrutiny over the potential risks to patients who are taking it and undergoing medical procedures. Previous articleIn Memoriam: AOA Past President Darryl A. Beehler, DO Next articleIn Memoriam: April 9, 2019
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Smoking is an addiction, and the best addiction program is the Alcoholic Anonymous 12 steps. This is the best starting point for any patient, and is not mentioned in your resources. Another modality not mentioned is acupuncture, which is also very helpful for addiction, craving, and psychological well being. Jul. 19, 2018, at 11:48 am Reply