South Carolina Tobacco Collaborative

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Cessation

  

GENERAL PRACTITIONER CESSATION SCREENING AND REFERRAL

Patient quit rates go up when physicians discuss and recommend cessation options and support. Make quitting easier for your patients by practicing these Best Practices Models:

• 5 As: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange
• 2 As + R: Ask, Advise, Refer

Call us at (803) 939-0088 or (800) 274-1893 for a free presentation of the U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update.

Quitline Healthcare Provider Fax Referral System

The Quitline Healthcare Provider Fax Referral Program builds on the services of the SC Tobacco Quitline by creating partnerships with healthcare providers. Through the Provider Fax Referral program, smokers and chewers no longer have to take the first step by calling the Quitline. Instead, while the patient is in-office, providers use  fax referral to have a representative from the Quitline contact the patient at a selected time within 48 hours.  To refer a patient, please download the HIPAA compliance letter and fax referral form.

For further information: Link to Healthcare Provider Q&A Sheet.

Other Resources

• Help Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians (2008 Update)

 

 

PRENATAL CARE PROVIDERS

 

 

The March of Dimes reports that currently at least 10 percent of women in the U.S. smoke while pregnant. South Carolina Pregnancy Smoking Rates by County.

According to the U.S. Public Health Service, if all pregnant women in this country stopped smoking, there would be an estimated 11 percent reduction in stillbirths and 5 percent reduction in newborn deaths.

A grant from the March of Dimes enables the South Carolina Tobacco Collaborative to assist  prenatal care providers to help prevent smoking in pregnancy. The goals of the project are to:

• determine priority geographical targets
• integrate an evidence-based intervention into every prenatal practice
• and encourage every clinician who interacts with women of child-bearing age to deliver effective smoking cessation advice and counseling.

If you would like for your practice to become a participant, or require further information, contact Gina Lane at 803-251-0130 or ginalane@smokefreesc.org

  (Download a quick reference fact sheet from the March of Dimes here.)

 

 

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