Features and Benefits

We are an on-line Community Resource Center. Our goal is to help you gain practical skills and knowledge, and to connect you with like-minded persons to share experiences, strength, and hope.

We offer you the chance to learn how to help someone quit in a way that is respectful and avoids arguing and confrontation.

Opportunities for Learning:

Search or browse for information on tobacco use, strategies for talking to someone about quitting and review effective communication skills.
Download handouts and tools.
Take a short course on how to help someone quit.
Keep up on the latest news and research on tobacco and health. Read columns written by experts in tobacco treatment and healthcare.
Read and post to discussion groups and read and post personal stories on helping others quit and dealing with tobacco use.

Resources Available to helpers

The Community Resource Center (CRC) has four main sections. Each section offers a different type of learning opportunity. Here's a brief summary of what you can expect from each section.

Information Center

The Information Center is a user friendly source for everything you wanted to know about tobacco and helping people to quit. Information is organized into topics including how people are motivated to quit, what are common barriers to quitting, how medications like nicotine patches help people quit, how to learn and practice good communication skills and how to evaluate alternative treatments like hypnosis and acupuncture. Each topic is fully covered with summaries, media presentations by experts, stories from other helpers and tobacco users and pamphlets and handouts to download and share. You can explore the Information Center by browsing through topics or use the search function to get to just the information you need.

Training Center

Sign up for on-line training in brief tobacco intervention skills. Our training prepares you to talk with tobacco users about quitting and offers continuing education credits for people in helping professions. Certificates of training are provided to everyone who completes the training. The time required to complete the training is about 4 hours. However, the training is self paced, some participants take less or more time.

Recent News

Keep up with the latest research on tobacco use and quitting. Our staff prepares summaries from the latest research journals. Also, enjoy columns written by the experts in tobacco treatment and health care. The content in the News section is regularly updated. New approaches to quitting and new resources for treatment are accessible and explained in everyday language.