ASA Smoking Cessation Initiative Website

Welcome to the ASA Smoking Cessation Initiative Website.  This site provides the tools that you need to help your patients quit smoking…

Provider PPT presentation
A This presentation reviews the reasons why surgical patients should quit smoking and describes how anesthesiologists can quickly and easily help their patient quit smoking.

Tobacco Quit-line card
The ASA has produced ‘quitcards’, a convenient means to get information about tobacco quitlines to your patients.

Patient brochure
This brochure tells your patients the benefits of quitting smoking for surgery, and how they can do so.

Provider brochure
This brochure tells how you can quickly and easily help your patients get connected with resources that can help them quit smoking.

Provider reimbursement PPT presentation
Anesthesiologists can be reimbursed by Medicare for providing even brief interventions to help their patients stop smoking – this presentation tells you how.

Video News Release
This news release from the ASA tells the public why stopping smoking for surgery is important, and why anesthesiologists care about this issue.

Link to other web resources
There are many web-based resources that you can use to learn more about how to help patients quit smoking, and that patients can use to get more information”