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The Foundations of Client-Centered Tobacco Treatment: A Training for Maternal Health Providers

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…

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Webinar: Motivational Interviewing 101

1.5 CHES Credit Available Presenter: Edward J. Perka, Jr., CASAC, NCNTT of the MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence Smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the United States. 70% of tobacco users want to quit, and many make multiple attempts. Healthcare providers often struggle when talking to their patients about their smoking behavior and advice to quit is often delivered in a curt and non-empathetic fashion as in “you just need to quit smoking!” This webinar explores some concepts and…

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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: Intensive Skills Training is a required component of the “Classic Pathway” for Tobacco Treatment Specialist Certification. 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 complete. Includes…

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