Minimal Intervention

• Information provided without significant contact (3 minutes or less) – can help people know their options.

Brief Intervention

• Low intensity counseling utilizing the 5 A Model1 (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, Arrange).
• Delivered in less than 10 minutes.

Motivational Interviewing

• Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an instructive patient-centered counseling method used to help people want to change and stop using tobacco.
• MI has been shown to help people make more quit attempts in the future; It is unclear however if MI increases the possibility that people who already want to stop smoking will be successful1.

Intensive Intervention

• Four or more therapeutic sessions lasting greater than 10 minutes whose contents have been scientifically proven to help.
• Total contact time must be longer than 30 minutes.
• Sessions must take place over at least two weeks, preferably over eight weeks or more.
• Tobacco users must be told about the different medications which they could use to help them stop using tobacco.

1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK63952/