Treat Smokeless Use

Smokeless tobacco use – particularly snuff and chewing tobacco – by your patients is dangerous. Here’s information on how to help them quit.

Refer patients to the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line at 800-QUIT-NOW (800-784-8669) or sign them up online for free coaching, medication and information!

Research:

• Cochrane Report on How to Help People Quit Smokeless Tobacco
• In Milwaukee and Madison: Study seeks patients who smoke to see if nicotine pouches can help them go longer between cigarettes
• Study: Smokeless Users Have Higher Exposures to Carcinogens Than Smokers
• Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
• UW-CTRI Fact Sheet: Smokeless Tobacco
• Good Reasons to Quit
• Plan to Quit
• Tips to Quit Smokeless Tobacco
• Other Web Pages on Smokeless Tobacco