Welcome to the Colorado Tobacco Education Web Site

This website is intended for healthcare professionals across Colorado and includes tobacco education best practices, evidence-based guidelines, educational tools, timely tobacco-related information and additional resources. It is our goal to help Colorado healthcare professionals to:

(1) Educate patients and clients about the dangers of tobacco use and secondhand smoke;
(2) Encourage tobacco users to quit; and
(3) Quickly and easily direct tobacco users to available cessation resources and reduce their family's exposure to secondhand smoke.


Toolkits for Mental Health Providers and Substance Abuse Treatment Providers

Toolkits are now available respectively for mental health providers and substance abuse treatment providers. Please click HERE to access these toolkits.


NEW! Tobacco Cessation Insurance Coverage Benefits for Employers and Employees

Information is now available about how to include tobacco cessation coverage benefits in employee health plans. Please click HERE for more information.

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Featured Article

The Tobacco Cessation and Sustainability Partnership

The Tobacco Cessation and Sustainability Partnership is a multidisciplinary group that brings stakeholders together to provide insight, expertise and leverage, while encouraging private and public health plans to provide comprehensive coverage for cessation.

Find out more about the Tobacco Cessation and Sustainability Partnership.

Ask

Ask patients and clients at every encounter if they use tobacco.

Advise

Advise every tobacco user to quit or to smoke outside.

Refer

Refer patients and clients to the Colorado QuitLine.