Overview
Goal:
To improve the learners' understanding of the negative effects of smoking on reproductive health in women and how to provide appropriate tobacco interventions for pregnant and potentially pregnant women.
After completing this module participants will be better able to:
- Use tobacco cessation counseling techniques that address the unique concerns of women who are pregnant or who will potentially become pregnant
- Discuss the great importance of preventing or stopping tobacco use with pregnant patients and women patients of childbearing age due to negative health effects on both the mother and child before and after birth
- Consider the negative effects of using drug therapy to assist with smoking cessation during pregnancy when deciding on the best tobacco cessation intervention
- Use intensive tobacco counseling intervention techniques as an alternative to pharmacotherapy in pregnant women
- Adapt tobacco interventions to racial, cultural, and ethnic differences in tobacco use when treating women patients
Estimated Time (Hours):
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