Use cases · Primary care · Specialist clinic · Pharmacy · Before surgery or a procedure
Smoking cessation
Quitting often takes several attempts, and support between visits is limited. Alongside the clinician or quit service, TESSA reinforces the plan: it asks about smoking or vaping habits, nicotine dependence and readiness to quit, explains options such as nicotine replacement and medicines, helps set a quit date and checks in afterwards, so the team can see who needs more support.
At a glance
- Does
- Counselling, Patient education
- Setting
- Primary care, Specialist clinic, Pharmacy, Before surgery or a procedure
- Specialty
- GP / Family medicine / Primary care
- Who
- Patient-facing
Also searched as
quit smoking support · smoking cessation · set a quit date
Questions
What does TESSA do in smoking cessation?
Quitting often takes several attempts, and support between visits is limited. Alongside the clinician or quit service, TESSA reinforces the plan: it asks about smoking or vaping habits, nicotine dependence and readiness to quit, explains options such as nicotine replacement and medicines, helps set a quit date and checks in afterwards, so the team can see who needs more support. It does this through counselling, patient education.
Does TESSA diagnose the patient?
No, TESSA never gives a patient a diagnosis. It collects and collates the information the patient provides, asks probing questions and performs risk assessment; a clinician reviews the summary and decides, and no diagnosis, summary or management plan reaches the patient until the clinician signs.
What happens if the patient mentions a warning sign?
Warning or worrying signs that require immediate attention or action go straight to the care team without alarming the patient. For time-critical presentations, TESSA supports the clinician only and is not currently intended for patient use.
How is patient information protected?
The patient surface runs on session codes, not names, and each institution's data is kept apart with a full audit trail. Our own Anonesia by TINYHealth is a proprietary software and code that removes PIIs, e.g. names, ID numbers and contact details from text before it reaches an AI model.
How do we start with this use case?
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