Overview of Tobacco Cessation

Overview

Goal: 
To improve the learners' understanding of basic behavioral tobacco interventions for patients and the process of change in tobacco cessation.


After completing this module participants will be better able to:
  • Use the 5 steps of smoking cessation intervention (the 5 A's)
  • Use knowledge of the prevalence of tobacco use and tobacco-associated mortality to guide treatment of patients
  • Use knowledge of tobacco initiation, tobacco dependence, interest in quitting, and racial/ethnic differences to guide treatment of patients
  • Use knowledge of the smoking cessation cycle to tailor behavioral tobacco interventions to patients in each stage in the cycle
  • Use awareness of typical patterns of smoking relapse to help prevent patients from relapsing to smoking
This module requires that you pass a post-test (70%) to receive a Letter of Completion.

Estimated Time (Hours): 
1.25