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Webinar: Health Literacy 101: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and How to Incorporate It Into Conversations About Tobacco & Nicotine Use

Presenter: Bonnie Carleton, MCHES, MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence 1.0 CHES Credit & 1.0 CME Credit Available for live webinar Join us for an informative webinar about health literacy and how it can be incorporated into conversations about tobacco & nicotine use with patients/clients. Participants will learn about health literacy, why it’s important, and some health literacy principles. We will discuss several studies about health literacy and how it impacts tobacco use, treatment, prevention, and quit attempts. Health literacy can improve patient understanding,…

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Treating Tobacco Together: Essential Skills Training – 1 Day Virtual with pre-work

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…

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Webinar: Amplifying Awareness and Disrupting Stigma: Strategies for Increasing Lung Cancer Screening Uptake

Presenters: Staff Scientist Liz Scharnetzki, PhD and Physician Scientist Neil Korsen, MD, MSc of the MaineHealth Institute for Research and the Maine Lung Cancer Coalition 1.0 CHES Credit & 1.0 CME Credit available for live webinar This webinar will cover the evidence supporting lung cancer screening with low dose CT scans and will describe the progress in implementation in Maine. The talk will also cover the stigma associated with smoking and lung cancer and describe the ways in which stigma negatively impacts outcomes…

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