Strategy H: Quitline Referral Sites
Strategy Description
Increase the number of providers and/or clinics that sign up to be QuitlineNC referral sites.
Expected Outcomes
Number of providers and/or clinics that sign up to be QuitlineNC referral sites.
Recommended Partners
- Free clinics
- Medicaid providers
- FQHCs or Community Health Centers
- Family health centers
- Pediatric offices and pediatricians
- Local hospitals
- HIV/STD clinics
- Culturally competent clinics
- University and college student wellness centers
- OBGYN providers and clinics
- High-risk pregnancy clinics
- Emergency departments
- Urgent care centers
- Behavioral health clinics and centers
- Community psychiatric and substance use dependent providers and clinics or centers or hospitals
- Community health workers
- Primary care centers
- Rural health centers
- Migrant health centers
Encouraging providers and clinics to refer those of highest need to QuitlineNC increases enrollment within these populations as much, and sometimes more so, than media promotions.
Intervention Examples
- While working with a clinic to integrate tobacco treatment or a brief intervention of the 5As, encourage site to refer to the QuitlineNC.
- During presentations for integrating brief tobacco use interventions or doing a presentation on the QuitlineNC, include the benefits of becoming a QuitlineNC Referral Site.
Related Programs
Recommended Tools/Resources
- Counties that want to promote QuitlineNC and would like to provide a presentation, please contact Kim Bayha, Cessation Director, for a PowerPoint that can be used or modified with a script attached: kim.bayha@dhhs.nc.gov
- Refer Patients to QuitlineNC
- To receive the aggregate reports of referrals and/or to receive the sites that are registered QuitlineNC Referral Sites, contact Mariam Ali at mariam.ali@dhhs.nc.gov.
- Tobacco Treatment Standard of Care
- CDC Best Practice User Guide
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