Geisinger Health Plan® - Tobacco Cessation

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The Geisinger Health Plan Care Coordination Tobacco Cessation Program is based on the 2000 Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Practice Guideline developed by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The following is a description of the Tobacco Cessation Program and its elements.

Program Goals

The primary goal of the Tobacco Cessation Program is to decrease the use of tobacco products among the Health Plan population, to include the use of smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipe) through the following:

Incorporation of the Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Guideline into a comprehensive risk management program.
Promotion of tobacco cessation through effective counseling, motivation, appropriate pharmacotherapy and reducing the incidence of relapse.
Pulmonary function testing (PFT) in cigarette smokers > 40 years of age for early detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).²

Interventions

Care Coordination nurses work with health care providers and rely on the following interventions when working with Health Plan members enrolled in the Tobacco Cessation program:

Comprehensive tobacco and readiness to change assessment, risk factor identification to include enrollment in other health management programs as indicated and risk stratification.
Individualized counseling: the "5 A’s"–ask, advise to quit, assess willingness to quit, assist in quit attempt, arrange follow up as indicated; the "5 R’s" to enhance motivation; address risk factors, and relapse prevention.
Collaboration with primary care provider (PCP) to achieve tobacco cessation.
Health promotion services–influenza and pneumococcal vaccine administration as indicated.
Data analysis to support clinical management–cessation status, pharmacotherapy, PFT rates

Program referral

To refer a Health Plan member to the Tobacco Cessation Program, please call (800) 883-6355 or (570) 271-8763 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

References

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Practice Guideline developed by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2000)

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