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The New California Gold Rush
Dental Hygienists Helping Smokers Quit
   
  It’s real easy! It takes 3 minutes or less.

Ask your patient if they smoke.
Advise your patient to quit smoking.
Refer your patient to the California Smokers’ Helpline.

1-800-NO-BUTTS

Increasing dental hygienists' awareness and utilization of services from the California Smokers' Helpline.

 

 
  California SCI Liaison
Austin Risbeck, RDH tasman141414@earthlink.net
 
  CDHA Gold Rush Partners
California Smokers’ Helpline | Pfizer, Inc | Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
The NEW CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH is part of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association’s Smoking Cessation Initiative (SCI)--Ask. Advise. Refer. Program.
 
     
  Gold Rush Success Stories:  
 

Gold Rush Campaign a Huge Success (42k Word doc)

The Great American Smokeout: CA Dental Hygienists Play Critical Role in Tobacco Fight (15k pdf)

The New California Gold Rush: 2004-2006 (454KB pdf)
This summary is provided by the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center to help build on the successes of the Gold Rush campaign and to build sustainability
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  How to Treat Tobacco Dependence in the Dental Office  
 

Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (1.1MB pdf)
The Guideline contains evidence-based strategies, recommendations, and counseling techniques that will increase the likelihood of successful quitting.

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians (600k pdf))
This Guide presents summary points and evidence-based recommendations from the Guideline, and provides you with the tools for effective brief clinical interventions, also counseling techniques that were found to be effective.

Dental Practice Tobacco Cessation Protocols (326K pdf)
The team approach to tobacco cessation interventions involves creating an office-wide program. This file contains the tools to organize the staff, assign responsibilities and implement a tobacco user identification and tracking system.

Health History Form (68K Word doc)
This health history and health history update form helps identify tobacco users in the dental practice and track tobacco use status at every visit. These forms can be modified to suit the needs of the office.

 
     
  Referral Aids  
 
ADHA Protocols & Scripts (63k pdf)
This is the ADHA tobacco cessation tool to assist dental hygienists in performing brief clinical interventions in the dental office using the Ask. Advise. Refer. program.
 
     
 
3 Minutes or Less Can Save Lives: Poster (111k pdf)
This poster is an ADHA promotional tool to remind dental hygienists of the importance of asking their patients if they smoke, advising them to quit, and referring them to a quitline. This poster is suitable for framing and designed to be placed in the dental hygiene operatory.
 
     
 
You Can Take Charge Gold Card (pdf)
The Gold Card promotes English language California Smokers’, Chewers’ and Hearing Impaired Helplines. To order Gold Cards, click on the link to download and print an order form. FAX order form to (858) 300-1099, or email order to cshoutreach@ucsd.edu.
 
     
  Clinical Tools  
You Can Quit Smoking: Quit Plan
This personalized quit plan provides your patients with motivational messages, advice on quitting, and offers five key steps which embody the key recommendations from the Guideline. Available in multiple languages. > More
 
   
The Health Consequences of Smoking on the Human Body
This interactive animation outlines the effects of smoking on the different organs of the body based on the findings of the 2004 Surgeon General’s Report. Flash | HTML
 
     
  Consumer Materials  
You Can Quit Smoking: Consumer Guide (280k pdf)
This guide tells your patients about ways to quit based on the Guideline and assists them in setting a quit date using the You Can Quit Smoking Quit Plan (34k pdf).
 
     
 
2004 Surgeon General’s Report:
The Health Consequences of Smoking

What The Surgeon General’s Report Means to You (1.3MB pdf)
This booklet explains the report and how smoking causes disease in nearly every organ in the body. Learn that within 20 minutes after quitting, a smoker begins a series of changes that continues for years. > More
 
     
  Online Tobacco Cessation Training
and Professional Resources
 
  The curriculum, developed by Joan M. Davis, RDH, MS, an assistant professor, dental hygiene, is based upon principles set forth in core competency in patient/client care by the American Dental Education Association. In addition, the program, which can be found online at www.siu.edu/~hcp/tobacco/index.html, is based on the Public Health Service’s 2000 Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline, the stages of change and health behavior change models. > More programs  
     
 
Download PowerPoint slides
Presentations include an overview of the Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline, and the ADHA Ask. Advise. Refer. presentation designed to be modified to suit the needs of the presenter.
 
     
 
The Health Consequences of Smoking: Database includes abstracts of more than 1,600 key articles originally developed to present the evidence on smoking and disease to jurors in a lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
 
     

The California Tobacco Control Alliance web site has been created to help California’s health care practitioners learn more about smoking cessation.
 
     
 
   
 
     

 
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