Five Cases: Basic Tobacco Cessation Interventions

Overview

Goal
To improve the learners' understanding of how to provide basic behavioral and pharmacological tobacco interventions for patients at various stages of quitting.


After completing this module participants will be better able to:
  • Apply basic behavioral interventions for tobacco cessation
  • Apply basic pharmacological tobacco use interventions
  • Determine a patient's stage of quitting, and use it to choose the appropriate tobacco cessation intervention
  • Determine other characteristics or needs of individual patients who smoke (e.g., concerns about weight gain, amount smoked, history of failed attempts at quitting smoking, etc.), and use the information to choose clinical interventions
This module requires that you pass a post-test (70%) to receive a Letter of Completion.

Estimated Time (Hours): 
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