Ask and Act Tobacco Cessation Program

There's strong evidence that advising your patients to quit tobacco and nicotine can more than double cessation success rates.

And research shows that current smokers are more satisfied with their health care if you offer cessation interventions, even if they’re not yet ready to quit. Ask and Act, the AAFP's tobacco cessation program, encourages you to Ask all patients about tobacco use and Act to help them quit. With a grant from the CVS Health Foundation, the Academy has developed free tobacco cessation resources for members, including a number of tools that focus on e-cigarettes. Read more in Academy Rolls Out New Tobacco Cessation Resources: Tools Offer Guidance on E-Cigarettes, Vaping, Screening.

Tools for Working in Your Practice

• Leading Change: Integrating E-cigarette Cessation into Your Practice*
  A quick guide to help lead discussion or reflection about the organizational needs for incorporating e-cigarette cessation in your practice. 
• Tobacco, E-cigarettes, and Vaping Cessation Education: Presentation for Health Care Workers*
  A comprehensive overview to help implement tobacco, electronic cigarette (e-cigarette), and vaping cessation in your practice. Can be used to educate your staff, administrators, government/policymakers, or other key stakeholders. 
• Tobacco and E-cigarette Cessation: Resources for Screening and Electronic Health Record*
  A sample template to screen and document tobacco and e-cigarette use in EHRs. This helps ensure tobacco and e-cigarette use is consistently addressed with patients and that population health status can be monitored and managed. 
• Guide to Tobacco Cessation Group Visits
  Follow step-by-step instructions on conducting and billing for group visits to help your patients quit smoking.
• Tobacco Cessation Flowchart*
  Provides quick information about the tobacco and e-cigarette 5As cessation process.  
   

Tools for Working with Your Patients

• Quit Smoking Guide 
  Walk patients through the steps for preparing to quit, quitting, and remaining tobacco-free.
• How to Develop a Quit Plan – Tobacco/Vape Cessation*
  Provides tips about how to successfully develop a quit plan with your patients. 
• Guidance for Clinicians’ Discussions of E-Cigarettes with Patients*
  Provides quick information about how to discuss e-cigarette use with patients. 
• FDA-Approved Smoking Cessation Medications*
  Quick access to information on dosing, precautions, and side effects of FDA-approved tobacco cessation medications.
• Prescription Pad - English
  Prescribe healthy habits to patients who are ready to quit so they'll know what to do before, during, and after their quit dates.
• Prescription Pad - Spanish
  Prescribe healthy habits. Give these "prescriptions" to your Spanish speaking patients who are ready to quit so they'll know what to do before, during, and after their quit dates.

*Materials developed with support from the CVS Health Foundation.