Cessation
Healthcare Provider Resources
With a recent grant from the March of Dimes, the South Carolina Tobacco Collaborative is taking an active role in working with 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.
The March of Dimes reports that currently at least 10 percent of women in the U.S. smoke while pregnant, and 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. (Download a quick reference fact sheet from the March of Dimes here.)
Physicians can improve screening and increase cessation rates by asking patients about tobacco use at every office visit. The Best Practice Cessation Model is known as the 5 A’s: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange.
Call us at (803) 939-0088 or (800) 274-1893 for a free presentation of the Clinical Practices Guidelines.
The Quitline Provider Fax Referral is a program that 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, after talking with their Healthcare Provider, the patient agrees to have the Quitline call them – making a “proactive” contact. To refer a patient, please download the HIPPA compliance letter and fax referral form.
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