Tobacco Use

Clinical Recommendations

The following clinical recommendations come from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) .

Counseling and Interventions to Prevent Tobacco Use and Tobacco-Caused Disease in Adults and Pregnant Women

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Community Interventions

The following evidence-based community interventions come from the Guide to Community Preventive Services , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Decreasing Tobacco Use Among Workers: Incentives and Competitions to Increase Smoking Cessation

Worksite-based incentives and competitions to reduce tobacco use among workers offer rewards to individual workers and to teams as a motivation to participate in a cessation program or effort. Learn more 

Decreasing Tobacco Use Among Workers: Smoke-Free Policies to Reduce Tobacco Use

Smoke-free policies include private-sector rules and public-sector regulations that prohibit smoking in indoor workplaces and designated public areas. Learn more 

Health Communication & Social Marketing: Health Communication Campaigns That Include Mass Media & Health-Related Product Distribution

Health communication campaigns can increase the use of health-related products when they use mass media messaging and distribute the products at free or reduced prices. Learn more 

Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Increasing the Unit Price for Tobacco Products

These interventions increase the unit price for tobacco products through municipal, state, or federal legislation that raises the excise tax on these products. Learn more 

Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Mass Media Campaigns When Combined with Additional Interventions

Campaigns, as evaluated for this review, are mass media interventions that use brief, recurring messages to inform and motivate tobacco users to quit. Learn more 

Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Mass Media Campaigns When Combined with Other Interventions

These mass media campaigns use brief, recurring messages to inform and motivate tobacco uses to quit, and they are often combined with other interventions. Learn more 

Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Multicomponent Interventions that Include Telephone Support

These interventions provide people who use tobacco products with cessation counseling or assistance in initiating or maintaining abstinence via telephone. They may be combined with other interventions, such as client education materials, individual or group cessation counseling, or nicotine-replacement therapies. Learn more 

Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Provider Reminders When Used Alone

Provider reminder systems for tobacco cessation include efforts to identify clients who use tobacco products and to prompt providers to discuss and/or to advise clients about quitting. Learn more 

Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Provider Reminders with Provider Education

These multicomponent efforts to increase tobacco use cessation include implementation of provider reminders and efforts to educate providers to identify and intervene with tobacco-using patients, as well as provide supplementary educational materials. Learn more 

Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Reducing Client Out-of-Pocket Costs for Cessation Therapies

These interventions include efforts to reduce the financial barriers that may keep people from using cessation therapies such as nicotine replacement, other pharmacologic therapies, or behavioral therapies such as cessation groups. Learn more 

Reducing Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Smoking Bans and Restrictions

Smoking bans and restrictions are policies, regulations, and laws that limit smoking in workplaces and other public areas. Learn more 

Reducing Tobacco Use Initiation: Increasing the Unit Price of Tobacco Products

This intervention includes an assessment of personal health habits and risk factors; an estimation or assessment of risk of death and other adverse health outcomes; and provision of feedback in the form of educational messages and counseling. Learn more 

Restricting Minors’ Access to Tobacco Products: Community Mobilization with Additional Interventions

These are community-wide interventions aimed at focusing public attention on the issue of youth access to tobacco products and mobilizing community support for additional efforts to reduce that access. Learn more 

Worksite Health Promotion: Assessment of Health Risks with Feedback to Change Employees’ Health

This intervention includes an assessment of personal health habits and risk factors; an estimation or assessment of risk of death and other adverse health outcomes; and provision of feedback in the form of educational messages and counseling. Learn more 

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Consumer Information

The following consumer resources are from the Quick Guide to Healthy Living at healthfinder.gov.

Quit Smoking

Quit smoking to live a longer, healthier life.

Have a Healthy Pregnancy

Eat healthy, stay active, and see your doctor or midwife regularly.

Talk to Your Kids about Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs

Talk to your child about the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.

Quit Smoking: Conversation starters

Most smokers want to quit, and support from a family member or friend can make all the difference. Use these tips to start a conversation about quitting smoking.

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