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Web-Based Trainings

TOBACCO CESSATION AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Target Audience

County Tobacco Control and Prevention Program staff and coalition members.

Overview

The purpose of this webinar is to educate on the importance of providing tobacco cessation treatment to smokers with mental health and substance use disorders.  The webinar dispels long-held myths and provides tools and resources to begin working with these populations.  The following topics are addressed:

  • Why this? Why now?
  • Morbidity and mortality
  • Prevalence rates
  • Unique challenges
  • Myth-breaking evidence-base
  • Case Study - The California Smokers’ Helpline
  • Case Study – Los Angeles County
  • County Behavioral Health Perspective
  • Next Steps

Materials: To download the PowerPoint presentation click here.


ORIENTATION TO CALIFORNIA SMOKERS' HELPLINE

COUNSELOR TRAINING PROGRAM & COUNSELING PROTOCOL

Target Audience

Anyone interested in learning more about the Helpline counselor training and counseling intervention.

Overview

This recorded webinar provides an overview of the training program and ongoing continuing education for counselors at the California Smokers' Helpline. It also provides an orientation to the telephone counseling protocol utilized by Helpline counselors to assist callers in quitting smoking. The following topics are addressed:

  • Counselor training
  • Clinical supervision & continuing education
  • Theoretical approach to helping
  • What’s in a call?
  • Simulated counseling session excerpts

Materials: To view the presentation online, please click here. To download the PowerPoint presentation click here.


TREATING TOBACCO USE AND DEPENDENCE


Date:    TBD

Time:   TBD

Cost:     Free

CME: This is a CME-approved webinar. The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience

Health care providers

Learning Objectives

The purpose of this course is to identify proven interventions for tobacco cessation to be offered during medical visits.  As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Define tobacco dependence and describe usage patterns
  • Explain why tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable disease and death in the world
  • Describe the importance of treating tobacco use
  • Deliver effective and efficient clinical tobacco interventions to patients using systemic, proven steps

Registration:To be notified when this training will be offered again, please click here.

Materials: Presentation


TREATING TOBACCO USE AND DEPENDENCE WITH LATINO SMOKERS


Date:      TBD

Time:     TBD

Cost:      Free

CME: This is a CME-approved webinar. The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience

Health care providers working with Latino Smokers

Learning Objectives

The purpose of this course is to identify proven interventions for tobacco cessation to be offered during medical visits.  As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Define tobacco dependence and describe usage patterns
  • Explain why tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable disease and death in the world
  • Describe the importance of treating tobacco use
  • Deliver effective and efficient clinical tobacco interventions to patients using systemic, proven steps

This course will address the Latino-specific cessation issues.  Learn to more effectively help your Latino patients quit smoking!

Registration:  To be notified when this training will be offered again, please click here.

Materials: Presentation


CESSATION 101

Date: TBD

Time: TBD

CME-Approved: No

Cost: Free

Target Audience

Anyone interested in learning the basic concepts of tobacco cessation.

Learning Objectives

This webinar provides a basic grounding in the concepts of tobacco cessation. The focus is on how to help people quit: What do we mean when we talk about “quitting”? Who are the tobacco users we intend to help? And what exactly is “helpful”? This training covers both individual treatment modalities and cessation in the context of health care and other systems. 

Registration: To be notified when this training will be offered again, please click here.

Materials:

Presentation

Summary


PROMOTING CESSATION

Date: TBD

Time: TBD

Cost: Free

CME-Approved: No

Target Audience

Anyone interested in and in a position to promote cessation programs and quit attempts.

Learning Objectives

This webinar will provide an overview of cessation in California, strategies for promoting cessation at the local level and elements of a local marketing plan.  Speakers include Connie Revell and Catherine Saucedo of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center and Kristin Harms and Kirsten Hansen of the Center for Tobacco Cessation.

Registration: To be notified when this training will be offered again, please click here.

Materials:

Center for Tobacco Cessation Presentation

Smoking Cessation Leadership Center Presentation

Sample Cessation Marketing Plan


In-Person Trainings

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND TOBACCO CESSATION

Dates & Locations:  TBD

Cost: TBD

CME-Approved: Yes (in-person) Click here to see all of the available credits.

Target Audience

Mental health and substance use disorder providers and counselors.

Learning Objectives

The purpose of this course is to provide mental health and substance use disorder providers and counselors the knowledge, skills and confidence necessary to assess and treat tobacco dependence in smokers with co-occurring psychiatric and/or addictive disorders. Upon completion participants will be able to:

  • Describe population-based trends of tobacco use among smokers with co-occurring mental health and/or substance use disorders.
  • Identify health-related consequences of tobacco use.
  • Understand and counter the factors in mental health and addiction treatment settings that have served to maintain tobacco use in populations with mental health and/or substance use disorders.
  • Identify and implement evidence-based treatment for treating tobacco dependence.

Registration: To be notified when this training will be offered again, please click here.

Materials: Presentation


CESSATION FACILITATOR TRAINING

Dates & Locations:  TBD

Cost: TBD

CME-Approved: No

Target Audience

Prop 99-funded agencies and their coalition members and subcontractors -- specifically those working directly with tobacco users to help them quit. 

Learning Objectives

  • Understand principles of change for addictive behavior
  • Identify factors that affect smoking uptake, maintenance, cessation, & relapse prevention
  • Develop skills in providing smoking cessation counseling
  • Identify current trends in smoking cessation pharmacotherapy

Registration: To be notified when this training will be offered again, please click here.

Materials: Presentation


TOBACCO DEPENDENCE TREATMENT & REFERRAL

Dates & Locations:  Email Kirsten Hansen for information on scheduling a presentation.

Cost: Varies

CME-Approved: No

Target Audience

Health care providers

Learning Objectives

  • Explain why tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable disease and death in the United States
  • Describe the importance of treating tobacco use
  • Define tobacco dependence and describe usage patterns
  • Deliver effective and efficient clinical tobacco interventions to patients using systematic approaches

Materials: Presentation


TREATING TOBACCO DEPENDENCE AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN AND PARENTS WITH CHILDREN 0-5

Dates & Locations: Email Kirsten Hansen for information on scheduling a presentation.

Cost: Varies

CME-Approved: No

Target Audience

Health care providers, specifically those working with pregnant women and children.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the importance of treating tobacco use
  • Summarize current research findings on the correlation between prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke and adverse health effects of smoking to children
  • Explain the impact secondhand smoke exposure has on a child’s overall heath
  • Identify effective ways to initiate conversations with pregnant women and parents of young children about the health risks of smoking
  • Deliver effective and efficient clinical tobacco interventions to patients using systemic, proven steps

Materials: Presentation


 
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