California Smokers' Helpline is a toll free telephone counseling service provided by the Department of Health Services, through UCSD’s School of Medicine, Cancer Center. Counselors are available Monday-Friday, 9am-9pm, Saturday 9am-1pm, Voice mail operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Anyone in California can call the Helpline — it doesn’t matter if you are currently smoking, have already quit or want information for friends or relatives. The Helpline is FREE, and when you call, a staff person will offer you a choice of services: self-help material, a referral list of other programs, and one-on-one counseling over the phone.

Link to the California Smokers' Helpline

Order a Smokers' Helpline Stand Kit (PDF) each kit comes with a letter of introduction, stand assembly instructions, a starter pack of California Smokers' Helpline "Take Charge" cards and a reorder form

University of Pittsburgh’s National Smoking Cessation Specialist Certificate Program

The University of Pittsburgh is pleased to introduce a program designed to help pharmacists help their customers out of the habit of smoking — and into the habit of relying on their pharmacist for care and counseling.

This program has two components: an initial six-hour training session, followed by two months of real world patient counseling and feedback. To set up a training session in your area, call Frank Vitale, MA, Director of the National Smoking Cessation Certificate Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Toll free: 1-888-412-5821

Curriculum Guide

The Pharmacy Partnership has facilitated the creation of a tobacco conscious curriculum called "Prescription for Change: Pharmacist-Assisted Tobacco Cessation" for use in educating California pharmacy students on the importance of tobacco control and their ever-increasing role as primary tobacco prevention and cessation counselors. The guide includes a three hour lecture segment and a three-hour hands on workshop component. Faculty members from all four California schools of pharmacy (UCSF, Western University, University of the Pacific, USC) and the Stanford Research Institute, Inc., Center for Health Sciences designed this guide as a tool to teach tobacco control to California pharmacy students. The California Board of Pharmacy and several other states have already expressed an interest in the guide. For more information about the guide, call Prescription for Change at 415-882-3326.

Curriculum Guide Fact Sheet (PDF)

List of Curriculum Developers (PDF)

AHCPR Smoking Cessation Materials for Clinicians and Consumers

The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research at the US Department of Health and Human Services has prepared brochures designed to provide recommendations and supporting information about smoking cessation to specialists, clinicians and consumers. For information about the guidelines, and to get copies of all brochures, call toll free: 1-800-358-9295 or visit their web site at: www.ahcpr.gov/

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