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New HHS Guide Helps Nurses Encourage Patients to Quit Smoking
HHS released a new tool that will give nurses evidence-based information that they can use to help their patients quit smoking. The pocket guide, Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses, was developed by AHRQ in collaboration with Tobacco Free Nurses, a national initiative funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to increase nurses' participation in tobacco control.
The free pocket guide gives nurses easy access to information based on the "5 As" approach to cessation intervention: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange. It also includes a current listing of smoking cessation medications approved by FDA and a referral to HHS' National Quitline, 1-800-QUIT NOW.
Select to read our press release and select to read the guide. A print copy of the guide is available by sending an e-mail to ahrqpubs@ahrq.gov. For additional information, please visit AHRQ's Tobacco Pathfinder Web site. For additional Web-based resources for nurses, visit Tobacco Free Nurses.
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