Help Your Patients Quit

The Center for Tobacco Cessation (CTC) is the training and technical assistance affiliate of the California Smokers’ Helpline. CTC helps organizations throughout California to increase their capacity in tobacco cessation through free training and technical assistance to health providers.

Furnishings Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) for Smoking Cessation 2017 (PDF)

California law (Senate Bill 493, effective 1/25/2016) allows pharmacists to provide nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products without a physician’s prescription. This fact sheet answers frequently asked questions about the law.

Quit Tobacco: How Pharmacists Can Help 2015 (PDF)

Pharmacists are a new resource for tobacco cessation in local communities. This fact sheet describes Senate Bill 493 (2013) which authorized pharmacists, certified in smoking cessation therapy, to furnish prescription nicotine replacement therapy products.

Public Health Specialized Registry 2016

The California Smokers' Helpline has been designated as a Public Health Specialized Registry within the CDPH Health Information Exchange Gateway. The Gateway, allows providers, hospitals and health information exchange organizations to register and manage public health data exchange with CDPH for specific types of reportable diseases and conditions, such as tobacco use.

Need Help with Quitting?

The California Smokers' Helpline is a telephone and chat-based tobacco cessation program. Services are free and are offered in many languages.

My Pharmacist Saved My Life By Helping Me To Quit Smoking  2010 (PDF)

This flyer promotes pharmacists as a resource to help smokers quit using tobacco products.

Talk To Your Pharmacist About Quitting Tobacco 2015 (PDF)

This educational sheet describes resources to help smokers quit, which now include pharmacists.