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Now Available: The Motivational Interviewing standalone program! A 1 hour module on using motivational interviewing to assist patients with quitting alcohol, tobacco or other addictive substances.

For continuing education on tobacco cessation, choose the 4 Hour "Half Day" PROGRAM or 7 hour PROGRAM.

Take the 4 Hour Program:

  • Overview of Tobacco Cessation: discusses the basic clinical behavioral intervention steps for helping patients quit smoking or other tobacco use.

  • Pharmacotherapy of Tobacco Cessation: discusses pharmacological interventions to help your patients quit smoking or other tobacco use.

  • Five Cases: Basic Tobacco Cessation Interventionsuses a case-based approach to teach the basic clinical intervention steps to help patients quit smoking or using other forms of tobacco.

  • Choose Motivational Interviewing for Primary Care: was developed to introduce and demonstrate basic motivational interviewing techniques for primary care.

  • or Children and Tobacco: Three Cases: uses a case-based format to present tobacco issues important in treating children in primary care.

Take the 7 Hour "Full Day" Program :

  • All Half Day courses, PLUS:

  • Tobacco Dependence discusses the neurobiological and psychological bases for tobacco dependence, nicotine addiction, and nicotine withdrawal.

  • Understanding Health Effects of Tobacco for the clinician the health effects of using tobacco and discusses patients' risks for each effect. Using health effects as motivational factors in tobacco cessation counseling is also discussed.

  • Teens and Tobacco: A Case helps healthcare providers prevent teen patients from smoking or using other forms of tobacco and help teens who have already started to quit. Topics include societal pressures affecting tobacco use by teens and age-appropriate tobacco cessation or prevention interventions.

  • Julie: Pregnancy and Smoking uses a case-based format to present the negative health effects of smoking during pregnancy.

Take the Motivational Interviewing standalone program!