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Pocket guide designed to put dent in 440,000 smoking-related deaths per year
Jump to full article: EurekAlert, 2005-05-10
Intro: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) unveiled a new clinical tool on May 10th designed to help nurses help their patients stop smoking.
Called Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses, the pocket guide encourages nurses to follow the Five A's to cessation intervention: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange. The booklet features a table of U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for smoking cessation, online resources for nurses (www.tobaccofreenurses.org) and a new toll-free national hotline (1-800-QUIT-NOW) for smokers wanting to quit.
The DHHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality jointly developed the guide with Tobacco-Free Nurses, a national initiative funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The project aims to enlist the aid of the country's 2.2 million practicing nurses in helping people give up smoking.
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