Tobacco Prevention & Control Program
Health Care Professionals
Coding Information Regarding the Diagnosis of and Billing for Tobacco Dependence Treatment
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat2.section.29660
A Systematic Approach Works!
As Health Care Professionals, you have all witnessed how difficult it is for
your clients to quit tobacco. They are dealing with a dependence on nicotine, a
substance known to be even more addictive than heroin. The majority of people
who want to quit tobacco are unsuccessful in any given attempt. Even the best
cessation strategies cannot claim to help more than about 40% of those who use
them. It may seem at times that you have little impact on your client's use of
tobacco. Not true!
You can make a difference! Health care services that ask
every patient, every time about their tobacco use and follow-up that
question with a brief tobacco intervention have been shown to be highly
effective in helping people quit using tobacco.
The Basic Tobacco Intervention
Skills Training teaches health care professionals how to conduct brief tobacco
interventions with individual clients. By the end of the course participants will:
- Have knowledge and skills required to provide brief intervention for tobacco users
- Be able to follow up with tobacco users to support their attempt to become tobacco free
- Be able to demonstrate an effective, brief, client-centered, tobacco cessation intervention
This is a systematic approach to help patients stop using tobacco. Its characteristics are:
- Client-centered
- Supports the patient wherever he or she is
- Uses collaboration between provider and client
- Is respectful and nonjudgmental
- Supports self-efficacy
- Uses motivational interviewing techniques including open-ended questions and reflective listening
- Evidence-based
Find out about the research behind this approach: Treating Tobacco use and Dependence
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/
Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
This Quick Reference Guide summarizes the guideline strategies for providing
appropriate treatments for every patient. Effective treatments for tobacco
dependence now exist, and every patient should receive at least minimal
treatment every time he or she visits a clinician. The first step in this
process--identification and assessment of tobacco use status--separates patients
into three treatment categories: Patients willing to quit, patients unwilling to
quit, and patients who have recently quit.
Printed copies of Treating Tobacco
Use and Dependence are available from any of the following Public Health Service
clearinghouses: the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (800-358-9295);
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (800-CDC-1311); and the National
Cancer Institute (800-4-CANCER).
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/tobaqrg.htm
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