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The Million Hearts® Action Guide series provides clinicians with evidence-based approaches for improving cardiovascular health. Each guide offers action steps and features proven tactics to help more Americans live heart-healthy, stroke-free lives.

If improving your patients’ cardiovascular health is a priority in your practice, the Million Hearts® Action Guide series can provide the resources and assistance you need to make your efforts successful.

Featuring Million Hearts® Action Guide Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco”.  This guide provides evidence-based, tested tobacco use identification and intervention strategies for busy clinicians. These strategies consist of actions clinicians can take to improve care delivery and ways to increase the use of evidence-based brief interventions for patients who use tobacco. Additional resources and references for each action step are also included in this guide.

As healthcare providers, it is important to encourage individuals to take action to make a difference in their health through healthy living. Let’s work together to empower individuals to make heart-healthy choices. Use these tools to enhance your heart disease and stroke prevention and treatment efforts and support Million Hearts® goals in your everyday work.

Visit our Cardiac Health page for more information on our efforts to improve heart health through partnerships, resources, education and shared learning. Be sure to join our Learning and Action Network to get involved and connected.