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Webinar: Smoking From Afar: The Dangers of Secondhand and Thirdhand Smoke

Presenter: Derek Bowen of the MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence 1.0 CHES & 1.0 CME Credits Available for live webinar Smoking tobacco products has long-lasting effects on our own personal health, but in this webinar we will be discussing the negative effects of smoking can have on our loved ones, friends, and even our pets. We will be discussing what secondhand and thirdhand smoke is, how to prevent it, and the impacts it has on our health. The truth is that a nonsmoker…

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Webinar: Brief Solution-Focused Therapy: Applications for Tobacco Use Disorder Treatment

Presenter: Edward J. Perka, Jr., CASAC, NCNTT of the MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence 1.0 CHES & 1.0 CME Credits Available with attendance of live webinar Brief Solution-Focused Therapy is a short-term therapy that focuses on setting goals and working out how to achieve them. It's about the future rather than the past and promotes positive change by encouraging the client to focus on what they can do, rather than what they can't. Traditional techniques tend to focus on exploring problematic feelings, thoughts,…

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Webinar: Tobacco Treatment with Low Socioeconomic Status (SES) Populations

Presenter: Edward J. Perka, Jr., CASAC, NCNTT of the MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence 1.0 CHES Credit Available for Live Webinar Since the release of the first Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health in 1964, smoking has become ever more concentrated among populations with lower income. Currently, the highest income Americans smoke at less than half the rate of those with the lowest income. Individuals who smoke and are low income disproportionately suffer from smoking-related disease such as cancer, stroke, heart disease…

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