Bringing Everyone Along
Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network project developed to address a growing need to better serve smokers/tobacco users with mental health and substance use disorders.  Includes downloadable resource guide  (with toolkits, presentations, patient/client information, and links to other sites): www.tcln.org/bea/index.html

Roundtable Conference Call and Discussion Forum Series (2:30-3:45 EDT):
March 13, 2008: Expert Advice for Providing Services to Tobacco Users with Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
March 27: Clinical Solutions in providing Tobacco Dependence Treatment for People with MI/SUD
April 10, 2008: Tobacco Free Policy Issues and Adapting Tobacco Treatment Programs

Online discussion forum will be available on the above topics for one week following each call.  For details and to register (there is no fee), go to www.tcln.org

UMDNJ Tobacco Program
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's "Tobacco Program" website. Source of downloadable materials, including research articles, for providers serving substance abusers and the mentally ill: www.tobaccoprogram.org

NYS Tobacco Dependence Resource Center
Resources and support for integrating tobacco dependence interventions into chemical dependency treatment, including smokefree grounds policies. Includes resources for counselors/clinicians, administrators, educators/trainers, advocates, policy makers and researchers; weekly newsletter, online forum, conference calls, downloadable materials and more.  Established for New York State programs but anyone can access (registration/joining required, no cost): www.tobaccodependence.org

UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School Division of Addiction Psychiatry Training Program
A two-day CME training conference for mental health professionals on "Treating Tobacco Dependence in Mental Health Settings" is offered twice a year at UMDNJ-RWJMS.  2008 schedule is March 7-8 and November 14-15.  For dates and details, check the website at: http://rwjms.umdnj.edu/addiction/Treating Tobacco.htm

"Quit & Stay Quit"  Tobacco Dependence Treatment Program
Recovery-based smoking cessation program developed by Dr. Terry Rustin.  Textbooks, Facilitator's Guide, patient workbooks, videos, etc. available from Hazelden Publishing. Especially useful for working with substance abusers; go to website, click on Bookstore tab, search "Rustin": www.hazelden.org

LGBT Populations and Tobacco
CD-Rom available from the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium: presentation revealing varied methods of tobacco industry marketing to LGBT people; the reasons behind LGBT vulnerability to tobacco marketing messages; and strategies and a call to action for tobacco control professionals working to decrease tobacco use prevalence among LGBT people: www.ttac.org/products/index.html

iQuit: A Quit Site for LGBT Smokers
Researchers at UCSF have initiated an Internet smoking treatment program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered smokers: http://iquit.medschool.ucsf.edu

Gay American Smokeout
LGBT resources from the Americans for Nonsmokers Rights: www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=461

Smoking Cessation in HIV-Infected Patients
Clinical guideline developed by the NY State Dept of Health AIDS Institute (based on the USPHS clinical practice guideline); can be downloaded in pdf format: www.hivguidelines.org/GuideLine.aspx?pageID=262&guideLineID=53

VA in the Vanguard: Building on Success in Smoking Cessation
Downloadable resource that includes sections on policy, best practices, minorities, mental health & PTSD, quitlines and more: http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/AboutSCLC_vanguard.html

VA Tobacco Use Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline
Based on the USPHS clinical practice guideline, developed for the Department of Veteran's Affairs; includes downloadable materials and an interactive online site: www.oqp.med.va.gov/cpg/TUC3/tuc_base.htm

Navy Environmental Health Center
Tobacco Cessation section provides clinicians and health educators with a 40-page manual, tools, guidelines, training information, presentations, posters and videos, brochures, articles, links to other resources and more: www-nehc.med.navy.mil/hp/tobacco/clinicians.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; includes low-literacy materials: www.tobaccofreecatalog.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