Center for Tobacco Independence

Earn up to 1.25 CME and CHES Credits with live attendance This virtual training is designed specifically for dental providers. To effectively treat Tobacco Use Disorder, dental providers require a specific combination of knowledge, skills, and abilities, along with affirmative attitudes, values, and beliefs that support them in this important and challenging work. This training provides participants with the basic level of tobacco specific information that is necessary to treat tobacco use disorder in their patients with competence and confidence. This training will…

November 12th: 1:00pm to 3:45pm EST November 13th: 1:00pm to 3:45pm EST November 14th: 1:00pm to 3:45pm EST   In this Essential Skills Training you will learn about tobacco prevalence, products and burden, e-cigarettes and vaping, motivational interviewing, how to integrate brief, evidence-based tobacco treatment interventions into current practice, tobacco treatment medications and relapse prevention and recovery. Participation in the Treating Tobacco Together: Intensive Skills Training is a required component of the “Classic Pathway” for Tobacco Treatment Specialist Certification. Virtual: Includes 3 days of training – approximately…

Online (Zoom) Offering This training is free and open to all health professionals, prevention professionals, and community members who are interested in learning more about the burden of tobacco and strategies for intervention and treatment with pregnant and post-partum individuals. In this training, we will share an overview of smoking & vaping prevalence in the pregnant population. We will identify health implications of smoking & vaping during pregnancy and postpartum, as well as the health effects of second & thirdhand smoke. We will…