Tobacco Control

Tobacco Quit Kit

Everyone Loves a Quitter. Smoking doubles the risk of death in every age group, killing more than 7,500 New Yorkers every year. More than two thirds of smokers want to quit, and more than half try to stop every year; however, fewer than 10% are successful over the long term without assistance. Quitting smoking is the single most important thing a person can do for their health.

Being Tobacco-Free is one of the ten key priorities of New York City's Health Initiative: Take Care New York. This Tobacco Quit Kit was created to provide you with valuable tools and information to help your patients become, and remain, tobacco-free. We hope you use these materials and talk with your patients about quitting smoking. Materials in your Quit Kit include:

Patient Education Materials

• • Wall Poster (PDF) [Spanish]
• • Palm Cards (PDF) [Spanish]
  Also features an easy reference calendar.
• • Easel (PDF)

Clinical Tools

• Smoking Questionnaire (PDF): This patient self-screener can assist you in assessing your patients' smoking habits and readiness to quit.
• Vital Signs Chart Stickers (PDF): Use these stickers in the medical record to incorporate tobacco status into your patient's vital signs. Ask your receptionist, medical assistant or nurse to place one at the top of the visit notes.
• Adult Preventive Care Flow Sheet (PDF): To help monitor and document physical examinations, test results, counseling, and immunizations.
• Materials Request: Call 311 or complete this order form to request Educational Materials, including Health Bulletins, Guide to Smoking Cessation, and City Health Information: Treating Tobacco Addiction.

Information for Providers

• Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation (PDF). Fiore, M.C., et al. American Journal of Public Health. February 2004, Vol. 94, No. 2, pp 205-210.
• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, May 2008. Provides an overview of the clinical practice guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence
• City Health Information: Treating Tobacco Addiction (May/June 2009) (PDF)
  Provides basic information on assessing nicotine dependence, readiness to quit and medication and cessation aids.
• "Take Care New York" (Health Bulletin # 15) (March 2004) (PDF)
  Details ten important steps every New Yorker can take to improve their health.
• Quitkit Folder (PDF)

Everyone Loves a Quitter.