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• New HHS Guide Helps Nurses Encourage Patients to Quit Smoking 

In recognition of National Nurses Week, May 6 - 12, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today is releasing a new tool that will give nurses evidence-based information that they can use to help their patients quit smoking. The pocket guide, Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses, was developed by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in collaboration with Tobacco Free Nurses, a national initiative funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to increase nurses' participation in tobacco control.

The free pocket guide gives nurses easy access to information based on the "5 As" approach to cessation intervention: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange. It also includes a current listing of smoking cessation medications approved by HHS' Food and Drug Administration and a referral to HHS' National Quitline, 1-800-QUIT NOW.

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Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange
"5 As" approach to cessation intervention, according to the new DHHS release, "Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses."