Listed below are links to websites offering manuals and materials for training healthcare providers in brief smoking cessation counseling and treating tobacco use and dependence.  (Website listing is for information only, inclusion does not constitute endorsement.)

Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
University of Wisconsin Medical School website offers, at no charge, healthcare provider training materials, including clinician packets, presentation slides, and two training manuals: "Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Practical Strategies to Help Your Patient Quit" (with a video/CD) and "Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence in Hospitalized Smokers": www.ctri.wisc.edu/HC.Providers/healthcare.Hospital.Packet.htm

UMDNJ Tobacco Dependence Program
This program has developed a training especially for addiction/mental/behavioral health counselors.  The manual, "Drug-Free is Nicotine-Free: A Manual for Chemical Dependency Treatment Programs," as well as other materials are available for a small fee (APTNA will provide these resources at no cost to qualifying agencies/programs).  Training covers clinical treatment as well as implementing tobacco-free campus policies: www.tobaccoprogram.org/educationalman.htm

Smoke Free Families
Offers interactive training for clinicians that is available via online download free of charge at http://iml.dartmouth.edu/education/cme/Smoking/install.html or via CD-ROM from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) for $25 (plus shipping and handling) at http://sales.acog.com/ or 1-800-762-2264, ext. 192: www.smokefreefamilies.org/care_prof/learn_how.asp

In addition, SIDS Mid-Atlantic provides free onsite Smoke-Free Families training for healthcare providers in Virginia who serve pregnant women and young mothers.  For information: Email stopsmoking@sidsma.org or phone 703-933-7437: www.sidsma.org/professionals/StopSmoking.html

Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation
UCSF School of Pharmacy tobacco cessation training program for health professional students and licensed clinicians; materials can be used in the classroom or as a CE program; available at no cost for nonprofit/non-commercial teaching and research purposes, End-User Licensing Agreement required: http://rxforchange.ucsf.edu/

Implementing a Smoke-Free (Hospital) Environment
From the Michigan Smoke-Free Hospitals project, a "how-to" manual on CD for developing and implementing a smoke-free hospital campus. Available for free by online request or by contacting Tom Peterson, M.D., Medical Director, MMPC, Ph (616) 974-4455, tpeterson@mmpc.com: www.med.umich.edu/mfit/tobacco/freeenvironment.htm

Tobacco Cessation for Correctional Populations - A Health Education Manual
Developed by the National Network on Tobacco Prevention and Poverty and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care; specifically for use in correctional facilities; two curriculum Modules (one for educating on health effects of tobacco use, the other is a guide for quitting); designed to be taught by anyone with access to correctional populations, expertise in health or tobacco control not required to facilitate sessions; Cost is $100 for manual, CD (with sides) and shipping or $175 when colored transparencies are also included: www.ncchc.org/pubs/catalog.html

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A How-To Guide for Implementing the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline
Downloadable "Clinician's Packet" includes PDF and text versions of materials and an order form for ordering print copies: www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/clinpack.html

Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program
New Mexico Medical Society website offers several resources, including a manual for medical and dental education programs (with a form to order Nicotrol nasal spray samples) and an exam room guide with many helpful clinical tools: www.nmms.org/subpages/NMMS_Tobacco.htm

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