HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PRINT ADS

The California Smokers' Helpline is pleased to make a series of 5 print ads targeting health care providers available free of charge to non-profit organizations in California wishing to place them in local publications.

The ads are designed to encourage health care providers to Ask, Advise, and Refer their patients and clients who smoke to the California Smokers' Helpline.

You may have seen these ads over the past two years in print and digital publications including AAP News, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, California Family Physician, CAPA News, New England Journal of Medicine, NurseWeek, Nurse.com, Medscape, and SmartBrief. The ads were developed with funding from the California Department of Public Health and First 5 California.

The Helpline will resize the ads free of charge for qualified organizations and provide them in the file format requested. For more information and detailed instructions for obtaining the ads, please download this form.

For more information, please contact Kristin Harms at kharms@ucsd.edu or (858) 300-1011.

FLYER ABOUT NEW MEDI-CAL TOBACCO CESSATION BENEFITS

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CREATING POSITIVE TURBULENCE: A TOBACCO QUIT PLAN FOR CALIFORNIA!

The California Department of Public Health, California Tobacco Control Program (CTCP), recently released Creating Positive Turbulence: A Tobacco Quit Plan for California. This plan is the result of a Cessation Summit convened in May 2009.  CTCP trusts that this Plan will help guide all tobacco cessation advocates in their efforts to create a sustainable model that is deeply imbedded into the health care, behavioral health, social service, and health care provider training systems in order to promote the health of all Californians.

CTCP cover letter

Full Report

Background and Purpose

Summary of Tobacco Cessation Recommendations and Strategies

INFORMATION SHEETS

The Center for Tobacco Cessation has developed the following information sheets on various topics and will continue to develop additional materials.  If you would like to request information on a specific topic not represented here, or in our trainings, please email us at C4TC@ucsd.edu.

Population-Based Cessation: A Tobacco "Quit Machine"

Tobacco Cessation for Persons with Mental Illness or Substance Use Disorders

Helping Your Patients Quit Smoking

Low Cost Strategies for Promoting Tobacco Cessation

Pharmacotherapy for Smoking Cessation

Smoke-Free Policies and Cessation

Tools for Helping Patients Quit Smoking

PRESENTATIONS

Cessation 101

Facilitator Training

Promoting Cessation

Tobacco Dependence Treatment and Referral

Treating Tobacco Dependence Among Pregnant Women and Parents with Children 0-5

OTHER MATERIALS

Sample Cessation Marketing Plan

Using the Communities of Excellence (Cx) Indicators for Tobacco Cessation

Sample Tobacco Cessation Objectives

LLA Training Tobacco Cessation Objectives