Services For Your Patients
The Try-To-STOP TOBACCO Resource Center of Rhode Island, funded by the Rhode Island Department of Health, provides the QuitWorks-RI counseling services.
What We Offer Your Patients
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QuitWorks-RI offers multiple services to all tobacco users, whether they are thinking about quitting, they are ready to make a quit attempt, or have already quit and are seeking help to stay quit. Here is what your patients are offered:
- Up to five calls to make contact with your patient
- Intake, assessment and brief motivational call
- Five telephone-based counseling sessions
- Enrollment in an interactive website for smokers www. becomeanex.org (Additional information for tobacco users and providers can be found at http://www.health.ri.gov/healthrisks/tobacco/index.php)
- Referral to community tobacco treatment programs
- Tailored print materials
- Follow-up calls at seven months
Telephone Counseling Calls
QuitWorks-RI offers multi-session telephone counseling as outlined below.
| Session | Schedule | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immediately following intake call to 1 - 7 days after, scheduled per caller convenience | • Establish rapport • Determine reasons for smoking, reasons for quitting, and concerns about quitting • Discuss nicotine addiction • Answer questions, concerns regarding quit date |
| 2 | OPTIMAL: 2 days before quit date RANGE: 1 - 3 days before quit date |
• Aid caller in preparation for quit day • Assess status of stop-smoking medications and discuss further if needed • Discuss and practice thought and action strategies |
| 3 | OPTIMAL: 1 day after quit date RANGE: 1 - 2 days after quit date |
• Assess quit status and emotional state • Conduct appropriate session based upon caller's quit status • Assess caller's use of quit strategies and stop-smoking medications • Plan for handling future tough situations that will come up in the next week |
| 4 | OPTIMAL: 7 days after Session 3 RANGE: 5 - 9 days after Session 3 |
• Assess quit status, emotional state, and use of stop-smoking medications • Assess caller's motivation to remain a non-smoker • Plan for handling future tough situations that will come up in the next week • Reinforce caller for their success |
| 5 | OPTIMAL: 14 days after Session 3 RANGE: 12 - 16 days after Session 3 | • Assess quit status, emotional state, and use of stop-smoking medications • Assess caller's motivation to remain a non-smoker • Remind caller to prepare to cope with urges to smoke in advance; plan for action and thought strategies, and do mental rehearsals of them • Reinforce caller for their success |
