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: Essential Skills Training is a required component for the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice Training “Classic Pathway”. 1 Day Virtual with pre-work: Participants must complete six online courses before the live virtual training day that will take approximately 4 hours total to…

1.0 CHES & 1.0 CME Credits available with attendance of live webinar Presenter: Keith Walker LCSW, TTS-C, MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence This presentation will explore the practice of mindfulness and empathy as useful means in treating Tobacco Use and other substance use disorders. We will look at how cognitive patterns and emotional wounds lead to self-destructive addictions. We will review some of the research validating the role of mindfulness, empathy and compassion in counseling, focusing on tobacco treatment.

Virtual via Zoom In this 90-minute training health professionals and others will learn about tobacco use disorder and evidence-based tobacco treatment interventions for youth. Led by Tobacco Treatment and Prevention Educatios, this training will increase participants’ confidence for working with patients and clients who use tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.   1.0 CME and 1.0 CHES Credit available