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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update

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HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2008

Last Reviewed: 2008

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup

This guideline includes strategies and recommendations to help health care providers, tobacco dependence treatment specialists, health care administrators, insurers, and other professionals use and support effective treatments for tobacco use and dependence. It includes recommendations on topics including: 

  • Proactive quitlines 
  • Counseling and medication 
  • Interventions to help specific populations quit smoking 
  • Systems interventions, including provider training 
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Objectives related to this resource (5)

Increase the proportion of adults who get advice to quit smoking from a health care provider — TU‑12
Little or no detectable change
Increase use of smoking cessation counseling and medication in adults who smoke — TU‑13
Baseline only
Increase successful quit attempts in adults who smoke — TU‑14
Little or no detectable change
Increase successful quit attempts in pregnant women who smoke — TU‑15
Getting worse
Increase Medicaid coverage of evidence-based treatment to help people quit using tobacco — TU‑16
Improving

Suggested Citation

1.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2008). Treating tobacco use and dependence: 2008 update. Retrieved from https://www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/tobacco/index.html