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SMOKELESS TOBACCO

Target Audience

Health Care providers and County Tobacco Control and Prevention Program staff

Overview

The webinar covers the follow topics:

Smokeless tobacco use
Tobacco industry marketing
New products
Implications for public health
Smokeless tobacco cessation
Dental settings
Self-Help Treatments
Web-based
Addiction
Pharmacotherapy

Presenters:

Pamela Ling, MD, MPH, UCSF Center for Tobacco Control, Research and Education

Herb Severson, PhD, Oregon Research Institute

CME-Approved: No

Recording: To view the recording of the webinar, please click here.

Materials: Presentation

KIDS AND SMOKE DON'T MIX: A TOBACCO TRAINING FOR CHILD CARE PROVIDERS AND PRESCHOOL TEACHERS

Target Audience

This training is sponsored by First 5 California and is for child care providers and preschool teachers in California. It is required for CARES Plus Participants, but is open to anyone.

Overview

This is a self-paced, online training. The training takes approximately 45 minutes to complete. You do not need to complete it all at once; you can stop at any time. When you return, you will continue where you left off.

In this session you will:

Learn about secondhand and thirdhand smoke and their dangers
Learn how to protect children from tobacco smoke
Learn the importance of asking parents and caregivers not to smoke around kids
Become comfortable giving smokers and their family members information about resources to help them quit

CME-Approved: No

Materials:

English Training

Entrenamiento en Español

CREATING POSITIVE TURBULENCE: A TOBACCO QUIT PLAN FOR CALIFORNIA

Target Audience

County Tobacco Control and Prevention Program staff, coalition members and anyone interested in learning more about increasing cessation on the population level.

Overview

CTCP and the Center for Tobacco Cessation hosted this webinar to highlight the cessation strategies and recommendations that resulted from the 2009 Cessation Summit. Learn what CTCP, the California Smokers' Helpline, and the Center for Tobacco Cessation are actively doing to encourage tobacco cessation among smokers and the health care community that serves them. Learn new strategies you can use in your community to promote cessation.

Presenters include: April Roeseler, Shu-Hong Zhu, Kirsten Hansen, Christopher Anderson, and Colleen Stevens.

CME-Approved: No

Materials: Presentation

THE CALIFORNIA SMOKERS' HELPLINE: TEEN CESSATION

Target Audience

TUPE coordinators, County Tobacco Control and Prevention Program staf, coalition members.

Overview

The webinar covers the follow topics:

Teen smoking prevalence in CA.
Current CSH approach to teen cessation.
- Theoretical considerations
- Counseling considerations
- Counseling protocol
Results of the CSH randomized trial with teen smokers

CME-Approved: No

Recording: To view the recording of the webinar, please click here.

Materials: Presentation

TOBACCO CESSATION AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Target Audience

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorder counselors, health care providers, County Tobacco Control and Prevention Program staf, 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

CME-Approved: No

Materials: Presentation

TOBACCO AND CHRONIC DISEASE

Target Audience

County Tobacco Control and Prevention Program staff and coalition members

Overview

The California Tobacco Control Program , The Center for Tobacco Cessation, The California Smokers’ Helpline, and the California Diabetes Program have teamed up to address tobacco use among people with diabetes and other chronic diseases. The webinar will addresses:

Tobacco and chronic diseases
Working with health care providers to address tobacco and chronic diseases
Resources to help Local Lead Agencies (LLAs) and their coalition members
What LLAs/coalitions can do to address tobacco and chronic disease

CME-Approved: No

Recording: To view the recording of the webinar, please click here.

Materials: Presentation

HOW CHILD HEALTH PROVIDERS CAN HELP FAMILY MEMBERS QUIT TOBACCO

Target Audience

Child health care providers

Overview

As a result of this program, participants will understand:

The burden of tobacco use on the family
How child health practices can effectively treat all members of the household that use tobacco
The new third-hand smoke concept and implications for practice
How to incorporate the third-hand smoke concept into a motivational messaging approach with families
How to implement the basic 3-step CEASE strategy in your busy office practice to eliminate tobacco use in the families you serve

CME-Approved: No

Recording: To view the recording of the webinar, please click here.

Materials: Presentation

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

CME-Approved: No

Recording: To view the recording of the webinar, please click here.

Materials: Presentation

TREATING TOBACCO USE AND DEPENDENCE

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:

Identify populations with high smoking prevalence
Describe the importance of treating tobacco use
Explain why it is difficult to quit smoking and identify principles of cessation and relapse prevention
Deliver effective and efficient clinical tobacco interventions to patients using systematic approaches

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.

TREATING TOBACCO USE AND DEPENDENCE AMONG LATINO SMOKERS

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.

Materials: Presentation

CESSATION 101

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.

CME-Approved: No

Materials:

Presentation

Summary

PROMOTING CESSATION

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.

CME-Approved: No

Materials:

Center for Tobacco Cessation Presentation

Smoking Cessation Leadership Center Presentation

Sample Cessation Marketing Plan

In-Person Trainings

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND TOBACCO CESSATION

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.

CME-Approved: Yes; for in-person training only. Click here to see all of the available credits.

Materials: Presentation

CESSATION FACILITATOR TRAINING

Please email Kirsten Hansen for information on scheduling a presentation.

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

CME-Approved: No

Materials: Presentation

TOBACCO DEPENDENCE TREATMENT AND REFERRAL

Please email Kirsten Hansen for information on scheduling a presentation.

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

CME-Approved: No

Materials: Presentation

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

Please email Kirsten Hansen for information on scheduling a presentation.

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

CME-Approved: No

Materials: Presentation