Advice and assistance from health care professionals remains a powerful tool for helping tobacco users quit. Studies have found that patients advised to quit smoking by non-physician clinicians are 1.7 times more likely to quit and patients advised to quit smoking by physicians are 2.2 times more likely than patients who are receiving no assistance.
The MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence (CTI), with funding from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, offers a variety of trainings for health care professionals to increase knowledge and build capacity to provide evidence-based tobacco treatment to patients.
Tobacco treatment provider resources and training
The Gold Star Standards of Excellence program recognizes organizations for creating and maintaining smoke and tobacco-free policies.
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