Listed here are websites with resources available to healthcare providers serving special patient populations, such as youth and children, older persons, smokeless tobacco users, diabetics, and non-English speaking populations  (Website listing is for information only, inclusion does not constitute endorsement.)

Youth Quit2Win
Developed by the UMDNJ Tobacco Dependence Program; abridged version of manual available online (for information on the manual and training, see contacts on website or call 732-235-8212): www.tobaccoprogram.org/quit2win.htm

Adolescent Tobacco Use-- Prevention and Cessation: Strategies for Primary Care Providers
Resource from the Illinois Chapter of the AAP and the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians: www.illinoisaap.org/ILguides.pdf

Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative
Provides information about youth cessation, research & surveys, programs & services, publications & presentations, fact sheets and other resources: www.youthtobaccocessation.org/

Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco--April 2006 Conference Presentations
Plenary and breakout session PowerPoint presentations plus workgroup results from the ACCESS conference in Seattle can be downloaded from this website: www.accessconference.org/

Tobacco Control Module for Child Healthcare Clinicians
Materials and resources developed by MassGeneral Hospital for Children for "CEASE: Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke," an office protocol for addressing parental tobacco use: www.massgeneral.org/children/professionals/cease/default.aspx

Children's National Medical Center: Smoke Free Homes Project
Provides resources and information for professionals, patients and consumers; includes a "Professional Tool Box" section; developed by AAAAI, AAP, CCHR, EPA and CNMC: www.kidslivesmokefree.org/

Office of the Surgeon General
Information in full guideline (Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence) on special populations; materials available for pregnant patients; materials available in Spanish. Downloadable in text or pdf formats: www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco
Print copies also available at no cost from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:
"
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

Smoking Cessation, Quality of Life & Older Persons
Website from The Center for Social Gerontology provides information on and access to materials concerning smoking cessation, effects of smoking cessation on health and value of healthy lifestyles for older persons (secondhand smoke effects addressed as well): www.tcsg.org/tobacco/cessation.htm

National Spit Tobacco Education Program
Resources for healthcare providers and smokeless tobacco users: www.nstep.org/

Help Smokeless Tobacco Users Quit
Catalog of resources from Applied Behavior Science Press, includes interactive programs on CD-ROM (adults and youth), videos, booklets, guides, fact sheets, etc; also includes interactive CD-ROM for dental provider education and videos for dental patients: www.appliedbehaviorscience.com/

Treating Tobacco-Users with Diabetes
Utah Dept of Health website offers a downloadable guideline and materials for treating tobacco-users with diabetes: www.tobaccofreeutah.org/healthcare-diabetes_ed.htm

Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California
Patient education materials at very low prices for African-American, American Indian, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, LGBT audiences, materials available in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Khmer, Samoan, Laotian and Russian: www.tobaccofreecatalog.org

National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT)
Website with resources for providers serving the Latino community: www.nlcatp.org/

Hmong Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Video
Published by the La Crosse County, WI, health department; 14 minute video or DVD ($20 each) with print guide, including script in Hmong and English: www.hmonghealth.org/library_resources/videoinfo.asp?id=16

Asian Language Patient Education Materials
Downloadable fact sheets on smoking and quitting in Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), and Vietnamese: (scroll down to "Tobacco") http://spiral.tufts.edu/topic.html#substance

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