Here are some additional resources concerning tobacco dependence:

• Medscape is offering a free one-hour CME program based on the recommendations drawn from the updated Guideline. To access this free CME program, click here.

• Powerpoint Presentation: Practical Skills for Working with Your Patients Who Smoke, Daryl Sharp, PhD, APRN, BC, FNAP

• Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
   
• Office of the Surgeon General – Tobacco Cessation
  • Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update – Clinical Practice Guideline
    • Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (PDF)
    • En español: Guía de tratamiento del tabaquismo (PDF)
       
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Podcasts
  • Reaching Out to Smokers:  An Interview with Tracey Orleans
    A podcast with Tracy Orleans explores how a consumer approach could vastly increase interest in tobacco cessation products and services. (To listen, click speaker icon on right.)
  • Helping Smokers Quit
    C. Tracy Orleans, Ph.D., senior scientist at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talks about the Consumer Demand Roundtable, a multiyear quit initiative, funded in part by the Foundation.
  • Michelle Larkin of RWJF Discusses New Interactive Tobacco Map
    In this video Larkin points out that the interactive map tool, which will be updated whenever states introduce or change key tobacco policy laws, will be a valuable resource to help advocates and policy makers see how their own state policies stack up against others.