Resources

The RNAO Best Practice Guideline: "Integrating Smoking Cessation into Daily Nursing Practice". This BPG includes recommendations to support the implementation of smoking cessation best practices into nurses' daily practice across all health care sectors.

The RNAO has created a number of programs and resources to help organizations and individual nurses implement smoking cessation best practices.

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Learn simple and effective techniques to talk to patients about smoking cessation.

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This kit provides tools to lobby federal and provincial governments on tobacco legislation and control, and to promote tobacco control initiatives within the community.

Click the links on the left sidebar to watch short video vignettes related to helping clients quit smoking.

This video was created by Erika Gélinas, a student with the L’École d’éducation internationale de McMasterville, with the assistance of the Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill (CUSM). This short video educates youth about the importance of not smoking cigarettes. Given that many smokers have their first experience with cigarettes during their youth, it is crucial to inform young people about the consequences of smoking, both to themselves and to loved ones.

An example Intervention from nursing students at Trent/Fleming School of Nursing

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Deciding to Quit Smoking

The purpose of this health education fact sheet is to increase health care consumer's knowledge and involvement in decisions regarding their health. This fact sheet is targeted towards people who have and or are trying to quit smoking.