The Academy's tobacco cessation campaign, Ask and Act, features a new online toolkit with downloadable resources. The toolkit includes quitline referral cards that can be printed in a physician's office or that AAFP members can order free from the Academy.
Help Patients Kick Tobacco Habit
Use Online Toolkit, Order Quitline Cards
By News Staff
1/11/2006
The Ask and Act Practice Toolkit applies the "ask and act" message to physicians as well as to patients. "Ask your patients if they use tobacco. Act to help them quit," says the campaign overview for physicians and other health professionals. Another toolkit resource, tabletop posters customized for male or female physicians, advises patients, "Ask your doctor for help. Act on his (or her) advice."
The posters also carry this message: "Ask your family doctor for a free quitline wallet card. You'll get fast, easy access to a trained tobacco-cessation expert who will tailor a plan just for you."
Available as part of the downloadable toolkit, while supplies last, AAFP members may order free plastic versions of the cards in packs of 200 online or by calling (800) 944-0000 and requesting item 966. A shipping charge applies to each order.
The cards say, "Call. It's free. It works." The cards list the number -- (800) QUIT-NOW, or (800) 784-8669 -- of the National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines. The back of the card reads, "This quitline card is provided by your doctor and the American Academy of Family Physicians."
Another resource in the toolkit is a PowerPoint presentation on tobacco cessation geared for the physician-to-physician setting. Practicing family physicians assisted in developing the PowerPoint presentation. Among information offered in the presentation:
The posters also carry this message: "Ask your family doctor for a free quitline wallet card. You'll get fast, easy access to a trained tobacco-cessation expert who will tailor a plan just for you."
Available as part of the downloadable toolkit, while supplies last, AAFP members may order free plastic versions of the cards in packs of 200 online or by calling (800) 944-0000 and requesting item 966. A shipping charge applies to each order.
The cards say, "Call. It's free. It works." The cards list the number -- (800) QUIT-NOW, or (800) 784-8669 -- of the National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines. The back of the card reads, "This quitline card is provided by your doctor and the American Academy of Family Physicians."
Another resource in the toolkit is a PowerPoint presentation on tobacco cessation geared for the physician-to-physician setting. Practicing family physicians assisted in developing the PowerPoint presentation. Among information offered in the presentation:
- Seventy percent of smokers see a physician each year.
- Seventy percent of smokers want to quit.
- Patients are more satisfied with their health care if their provider offers smoking cessation interventions -- even if they're not yet ready to quit.
- Identification and assessment involves asking whether a patient uses tobacco and acting on the response, namely, arranging on- or off-site counseling; suggesting quitlines; offering patient education materials, self-help guides or Web sites; recommending tobacco cessation classes; and prescribing nicotine replacement therapy or other pharmacotherapy
- Medicare covers tobacco cessation counseling, and Medicare's prescription drug benefit covers smoking cessation treatments. CPT and ICD-9 billing codes are noted in the presentation.
The PowerPoint presentation also lists recommended first-line and second-line pharmacotherapies and covers topics such as therapies for patients concerned about weight gain.
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