This treatment manual is based on material from VA Cooperative Studies Program #519 and was prepared by Miles McFall and Andrew Saxon, in collaboration with David Kalman and Timothy Carmody. The principles of smoking cessation treatment used in this manual were derived from a number of original sources, referenced below. Most notably, the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline (Fiore, 2000) and the treatment model described by Richard
Brown (2003) provided the foundation for this manual. The authors tailored the treatment manual to the specific needs of patients with chronic PTSD, based on widely published principles of evidence- and consensus-based clinical practices. They also relied heavily on their own experience conducting tobacco cessation research with patients with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System