Tobacco-Free Worksites
All healthcare facilities share the mission of providing quality health services and promoting health and well-being. An excellent way to fulfill part of this mission statement is to implement a tobacco-free campus wide policy at your own facility.
The Healthy Hospital Initiative website has many resources available to help you become tobacco-free campus wide. Click on some of the quick links below.
Also see Making your Workplace Smoke-free -- A decision makers guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Benefits to becoming tobacco-free campus wide
- Easier for your employees to speak with patients at every visit about quitting their use of tobacco products. The Prevention Rx system helps you identify patients who are ready to make a behavior change in the following areas: tobacco use, nutrition, and physical activity.
- Employees take fewer sick days
- Help employees quit using tobacco products
Healthcare Professionals
The NC Quitline is a free, underused, million dollar resource that can help your patient develop a plan to quit. If you don't have time to counsel your tobacco users, refer them to the quitline using the fax referral form. This allows the quitline to make the first call to your patient, and twice after that during periods of proven relapse. This ensures that tobacco users receive the follow up care they need. Some organizations have found it easiest to pre-print their name on the form to ensure uniformity across their organization and to make the process quicker. People who get help from quitlines are twice as likely to quit for good.
Fax Referral Form: Why and when should I use it?
FAX TO: 1-800-483-3114
- The fax
referral form (English / Spanish)
 should be used for tobacco users ready to quit within 30 days.
- NC Quitline makes the 1st call to the tobacco user and twice more at proven periods of relapse. Calls are during days of the week and times that are convenient for the tobacco-user.
- Healthcare professionals, social workers, businesses, wellness coordinators, and any other individual can send in a fax referral form as long as the form is signed.
- HIPAA-covered entities may receive feedback on patient progress.
- Data on numbers of callers referred to the quitline by organization is available. See Quitline Statistics for more information.
- The quitline cannot inform
anyone of a caller's participation in quitline services. However, the caller can request a Certificate
of Enrollment to provide evidence of participation in an evidence-based
cessation support program via the quitline. The certificate is then
sent directly to the caller, not the provider. (Note: To be eligible
for the Certificate, the caller needs to enroll in the callback program).
Quitline Fliers and Handouts
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