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Nurses Can Have a Big Impact on U.S. Smoking Rates

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If the 2.2 million working nurses in the U.S. each helped one person per year quit smoking, it would triple the U.S. quit rate, according to Tobacco Free Nurses.

Joint Commission Examines QI Measures for Nurses, Including Smoking Cessation

For free copies of Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses, click here. Or contact AHRQ’s Publication Clearinghouse at 1-800-358-9295 or send an e-mail to ahrqpubs@ahrq.gov.

For practical tools to help healthcare providers help patients quit, click here.

Continuing Education:

  • To get free CME/CE credits, click here to take a free online course via MedScape.
  • To access free CME training in person via your local UW-CTRI outreach specialist, click here

For more on helping pregnant smokers quit, click here.

  
Charles Henderson, front, of Milwaukee quit smoking with the help of Kim Ryan (center), RN, of the UW-Milwaukee Silver Spring Community Nursing Center, and Mary Balistreri (right), a UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist.
Charles Henderson, front, of Milwaukee quit smoking with the help of Kim Ryan (center), RN, and Mary Balistreri (right), a UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist.

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