2014 marks 50 years since the Surgeon General’s report that concluded smoking is a health hazard. According to Minnesota Public Health 2012 data, 19 percent of adults reported being current smokers.

Tobacco use is
still a problem!

Screening alone does not do enough to reduce tobacco use. Clinicians need to discuss tobacco use with their patients and counsel them on the options available to help them quit. Then patients can prepare to quit.

Following are tools and resources taken from ICSI's Tobacco: Screen, Counsel, Refer and Follow-Up Workshop, held in June, 2014, to help make your organization’s tobacco screening process more effective, including changes you can implement right now.

Influencing Behavioral Change Presentation (Pam Pietruszewski, Team Director, ICSI)

Influence Worksheet

Integrating the Call it Quits Fax Referral Program Presentation (Kim Winter, Program Operations, Call it Quits)

New Products, Old Tricks: The Problem Presentation (Pat McKone, Director of Tobacco Control Program & Policy, American Lung Association)

QUITPLAN Service Presentation (Randi Lachter, Senior Cessation Manager, ClearWay Minnesota, QUITPLAN)

Screening Presentation (Melissa Marshall, Project Manager, ICSI)

Tobacco Prevention and Control at MDH Presentation (Maria Rudie, MPH, Health Systems Coordinator, Office of Statewide Health Improvement Initiatives, MDH)

The Successful Clinic Call it Quits Worksheet