Treating Tobacco Roadmap
The Roadmap offers practical tools and resources to help programs integrate tobacco treatment into services for people with behavioral health conditions.
Information on Smoking, Tobacco and E-cigarette Use for Clinicians
Check out these resources to help clinicians prevent and treat tobacco or e-cigarette use with pediatric or adult patients.
Tobacco-Free Workplace Toolkit: Healthier & More Productive
No level of secondhand smoke exposure is safe. Check out this guide to learn more about the real cost.
Tobacco Treatment Guide
Clinical workflow for supporting patients to meet their tobacco-related goals, regardless of readiness to quit.
Supporting Your Patients Who Smoke or Vape: A Coaching Guide
Instructions and suggested language to help engage and counsel patients (2024).
Stages of Change Video
This 3 1/2 minute video describes the stages people may go through when considering a change (2019).
Table of Tobacco Stage of Change and Matching Interventions
This table (updated in 2025) describes interventions appropriate for each stage of change.
Self-Report Tobacco Assessment (Questions 12 and 13)
The handout from the Learning About Healthy Living (LAHL) manual (updated in 2024) is a self-reported assessment of tobacco use. Questions 12 and 13 help assess a person’s readiness (stage of change) to address tobacco use.
Provider Guidance for Quiz: What Is Your Relationship With Tobacco?
An answer key with guidance on how to help someone in each stage of change.
