Smoke-Free Virginia
Website for patients/consumers. Includes a directory of local cessation programs listed by city and links to: online cessation programs, websites in Spanish, cessation resources, youth resources, information and materials, list of toll-free phone counseling numbers, Quit Kit ordering, residential cessation programs, smokefree restaurant sites and other resources.  Funded by VDH Tobacco Use Control Project: www.smokefreevirginia.org

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Print copies of the USPHS tobacco use and dependence publications are available from AHRQ at no cost. The order form (AHRQ Publication #03-M003) can be downloaded, printed and faxed to AHRQ:
"Quit Smoking Products for Consumers Order Form" is available in two formats -
Text Format www.ahrq.gov/clinic/tobacco/order.htm
PDF format www.ahrq.gov/clinic/tobacco/order.pdf

Tobacco Cessation--You Can Quit Smoking Now!
Surgeon General's website provides downloadable patient education materials in text and/or pdf formats, many in Spanish: www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/

Smokefree.gov
National, federally funded website includes a free online program for tobacco users who want to quit, patient education materials and more: www.smokefree.gov

Tobacco-Free Nurses
National program focused on helping nurses and student nurses stop smoking; provides free access to the online QuitNet cessation program: www.tobaccofreenurses.org

Chantix: New Prescription Medication for Smoking Cessation
Chantix is a new prescription medication developed by Pfizer and approved in May 2006 by the FDA for smoking cessation treatment.  For information visit the website: www.chantix.com

Quit Smoking: Consumer Interactive Tool
Downloadable PDA tool to help consumers prepare to quit smoking (Palm OS 3.2 or Pocket PC Version) provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: http://pda.ahrq.gov/consumer/qscit/qscit.htm

American Academy of Family Physicians
Website search using "smoking cessation" as key words will yield articles of interest, including suggestions regarding interventions and patient education materials: www.aafp.org

Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California
Wide selection of patient education materials and other resources at very low prices: www.tobaccofreecatalog.org

Together RX Access Program
Provides 25%-40% savings on prescription medications (including Nicotrol and Zyban) for qualified individuals and families without prescription drug coverage; program is free; contact 1-800-444-4106 or visit www.togetherrxaccess.com

Smoker's Lung Pathology Photo Essay
Resource from Medicine Net that includes diagrams and photographs relating to "smoker's lung" (abnormalities in the lung caused by cigarette smoking: www.medicinenet.com/Smokers_Lung_Pathology_Photo_Essay/article.htm

Lung Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center developed tool that can assess a smoker's risk of developing lung cancer within ten years based on age, sex, smoking history, asbestos exposure: www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/12463.cfm

OTHER SOURCES OF PATIENT EDUCATION MATERIALS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/how2quit.htm

US Health and Human Services Quit Kit
www.ahrq.gov/consumer/tobacco/

UW-Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
www.ctri.wisc.edu/

National Institute of Drug Abuse "Nicotine Addiction"
www.smoking.drugabuse.gov/

Navy Environmental Health Center
www-nehc.med.navy.mil/hp/tobacco/clinicians.htm

How Stuff Works: Nicotine
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nicotine.htm