Review the 5A's, Stages of Chance, counseling skills for tobacco dependence treatment, and assisting patients to access resources with your Behavioral Health staff.
Learn to use the Fagerström and Hooked on Nicotine Checklist to better assess and diagnose tobacco use disorders. Also review the Stages of Change.
Learn to identify various elements of a treatment plan and how they function. Then how to different interventions can be utilized to treat tobacco use.
Learn why counseling services related to tobacco use should be provided to individuals in behavioral health treatment and develop the knowledge and skills to create tobacco quit plans.
Learn what different types of pharmacotherapy are available to support a quit attempt and which are the appropriate medications to prescribe to your patients based on their medical history.
This short evidence-based PowerPoint will provide some the most essential facts for a physician in New York State to know regarding the burdens Tobacco Use places on the states citizens.