• 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)—Free smoking cessation resource that supplies health information and support to those who wish to quit smoking. The call will be answered by a tobacco cessation representative in the caller's state. This hotline is available from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) 24-hour hours per day, 7-days a week.
• American Cancer Society—Provides information on health issues, tips for quitting, and smoking legislation.
• American Lung Association (ALA)—Provides information on a variety of smoking control and prevention programs targeted to specific groups.
• ALA Freedom From Smoking—ALA's popular smoking cessation program is now available free online.
• ALA Not On Tobacco—ALA's newest tool to help teens quit smoking. NOT offers 10 sessions and 4 optional booster sessions through voluntary participation. Provides comprehensive facilitator training in addiction, curriculum content and implementation, referral for other help and group process.
• Ask and Act—Provides quitline cards, patient education materials, and practice materials.
• BACCHUS Network: Tobacco—Provides student-friendly training programs, resource manuals, posters, and pamphlets.
• Become An Ex—Provides personalized quit plan, resource center, and links to other helpful programs.
• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids—Provides information on public policy at the federal, state, and local levels; supports advocacy programs and events.
• CDC's Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—An evidence-based guide to help States plan and establish effective tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use. The book identifies and describes the key elements for effective state tobacco control programs, including programs designed for communities, schools, and the entire State.
• CDCs Dispelling the Myths about Tobacco: A Community Toolkit for Reducing Tobacco Use Among Women—This toolkit includes suggestions and ideas in the form of presentations, programs, media outreach, and other activities.
• CDCs Healthy Youth! Tobacco Use—Provides general information, data & statistics, science-based stragies, and national, state, and local programs.
• CDC's Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)—Provides information about preventing tobacco use among youth, smoking cessation, and environmental tobacco smoke.
  • I QUIT!: What to Do When You're Sick of Smoking, Chewing, or Dipping—Cessation guide targeted to teens who are trying to quit cigarettes or smokeless tobacco. It includes tips for dealing with nicotine withdrawal and for handling the situations that may lead to relapse.
  • Seven Deadly Myths—hosted by cover model, entrepreneur and smoking cessation advocate Christy Turlington, is a 17-minute video that explores some of the common myths about smoking and empowers women to become or stay smoke-free.
  • Secrets Through The Smoke—A 55-minute video that is divided into three separate parts to facilitate viewing and discussion.
  • Teens and Tobacco, What's Really In—Provides information and resources on teen tobacco use.
  • What You(th) Should Know About Tobacco—A handout for youth about tobacco use.
  • You Can Quit: A Consumer's Guide—Provides the ways to quit and the names and addresses of organizations that can offer help.
• National Spit Tobacco Education Program—Provides facts about spit tobacco, information for healthcare professionals, community resources, and resource materials order form.
• Nicotine Addiction, and other dangers of tobacco use—The site contains fact sheets and research reports on nicotine addiction.
• Nicotine Anonymous—Provides additional information and support for those using cessation programs and nicotine withdrawal aids. Offers group support and recovery using the 12 Steps as adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous to achieve abstinence from nicotine.
• NIH National Cancer Institute Smokeless Tobacco —Provides general information and links to other web resources.
• QuitNet—A free online quit smoking support program. Users can create their own plan, ask questions of experts, get support from the QuitNet community, and learn from science-based quitting guides.
• Smokefree.gov—Provides an online guide to quitting and telephone support/instant messaging with an expert.
• Smoking Stinks—An anti-smoking campaign developed by Anne Arundel County Health Department, MD. Includes facts, quiz, game, and 'chamber of horrors.
• The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General—Provides the complete report Surgeon General report by chapters, fact sheets, abstract database, and video.
• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, Clinician's Packet—This Clinician's Packet is a how-to guide for implementing the PHS clinical practice guideline. It contains information about developing a system, advising patients, special populations, and reimbursement; and products for clinicians and consumers.

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