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's our goal to help Colorado healthcare professionals (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.
Featured Article
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update Released
The U.S. Public Health Service released an update to the 2000 version Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, a Clinical Practice Guideline. It is the product of a private-sector panel of experts, consortium representatives and staff. The update was written to include new, effective clinical treatments for tobacco dependence that have become available since the 2000 Guideline was published. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update will make an important contribution to the quality of care in the U. S. and the health of the American people.
This Public Health Service-sponsored Clinical Practice Guideline update gives hope to the 7 out of 10 smokers who visit a clinician each year. This Guideline urges every clinician, health plan, and health care institution to make treating tobacco dependence a top priority during these visits to ask the following questions: “Do you smoke...
- Ask
- Ask patients/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.
