Counseling Parents about Smoke Cessation

Reimbursement Resources

Continuing Medical Education Course

2008 Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline Update on Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
The new guidelines strengthen recommendations for tobacco cessation counseling in pediatric care, recommend counseling, pharmacotherapy and quit-line referral interventions in all health care settings, including for parents in pediatric care settings, and recommend counseling (but not pharmacotherapy) for adolescents. Click here to learn how to use the guidelines in practice.

American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics has additional information related to secondhand tobacco smoke

Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure
The CEASE program was developed by child healthcare clinicians to help other child healthcare clinicians adjust their office setting to address parental tobacco use in a routine and effective manner. Click here to view the CEASE training vgnettes.

Protecting Children From Secondhand Smoke & Tobacco: A Pediatric Curriculum Guide
A CD-ROM with teaching tools to help programs develop residency curriculum in tobacco prevention and control will soon be available to pediatric residency program directors, residents, and other interested faculty from the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center.  It will be available at the AAP NCE meeting in October 2008, to coincide with the launch of the 2008-2009 AAP Resident Section child advocacy campaign on tobacco.

Smoke Free Homes
Smoke Free Homes is a comprehensive, national effort to train pediatric clinicians in brief, effective methods to reduce children's secondhand smoke exposure through parental smoking cessation and harm reduction.

• Professional Toolbox
  Smoke Free Homes created a collection of information concerning training programs, clinician guides and tools, counseling documentation and other forms, and patient education materials.

Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center creates partnerships for results with a variety of groups and institutions to develop and implement action plans around smoking cessation.

Talk to your patients
Don’t Be Silent About Smoking is a social marketing campaign developed by the New York State Department of Health’s Tobacco Control Program. The campaign was created in collaboration with New York State clinicians and targets physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in the state.The purpose of the campaign is to encourage primary health care providers and other clinicians to take an active role in helping their patients who smoke to quit.

The US Surgeon General’s Report of Children and Secondhand Smoke. (pdf, 748K)

Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network
The TCLN has grown out of two multi-state collaborations over the last five years, in response to a growing need in state programs to collaborate on the development and implementation of comprehensive approaches to tobacco cessation.


PODCASTS

ReachMD features Thirdhand Smoke: Key Concerns for Infants and Children
Dr. Jonathan Winickoff, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium, talks with host Dr. Jennifer Shu about how these chemicals, newly named thirdhand smoke, can affect our younger patients in particular.

Please note that these are not complete listings and inclusion in the listings does not imply endorsement by the Richmond Center or the American Academy of Pediatrics.