Provider Resources

Overview

Healthcare providers are a critical link in helping Alaskans take the important first steps towards choosing to quit tobacco. We have resources to help you and your patients learn what options are available to them.

Tobacco Intervention: Helping Alaskans Quit

“Health care providers are a crucial partner in helping Alaska adults quit tobacco and nicotine. They are in a unique position to screen patients for tobacco use and provide the necessary resources and support,” said Christy Knight, Alaska’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program Manager.

Health care providers: You play a critical role in helping Alaska adults quit tobacco and nicotine products. Recent state data shows that a tobacco counseling intervention from a health care provider helps Alaska adults quit.

The Brief Tobacco Intervention is a quick and effective approach to address tobacco use in fewer than 3 minutes.

Ask every patient about tobacco use at every visit
Advise all tobacco users to quit for good
Connect those ready to quit with resources

Sign up: Alaska's The Brief Tobacco Intervention

Health care provider training and outreach

Sign up for Alaska’s The Brief Tobacco Intervention: Helping Alaskans Quit
Sign up for Addressing Nicotine Addiction in Alaska Behavioral Health Care
Providers working with youth can sign up for From Vapes To Victory: Empowering teens to overcome vaping
- Review tobacco cessation interventions and quality improvement tools for health care professionals in the Tobacco Cessation Change Package

Alaska's Tobacco Quit Line

Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line provides free quit coaching, nicotine replacement therapy, quit plans, and more with Alaska adults statewide.

Refer a patient electronically to Alaska’s Tobacco Quit Line.
Order Quit Line print materials to share with patients, including posters, tearaway cards, and rack cards. All are available at no cost to you. Email tobacco@alaska.gov to place an order.

There are many ways to enroll. Patients can:

call 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)
text READY to 34191

Visit AlaskaQuitline.com