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The Foundations of Client-Centered Tobacco Treatment – A Training for Youth Providers

Live Online (Zoom) Offering Join other health professionals in this virtual training to learn more about tobacco use disorder and evidence-based tobacco treatment interventions for youth. Led by healthcare professionals, this training will increase participants’ confidence for working with patients and clients who use tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. 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 youth. In…

Webinar: Lung Health and Tobacco Use

Presenter: Keith Walker; LCSW, NCNTT of the MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence Register – 1.0 CHES & 1.0 CME Credits Available This webinar will explore smoking prevalence and increased health risks associated with smoking and vaping, with a specific focus on lung health. We will examine the links of tobacco use with COPD, lung cancer, and asthma. We will discuss the benefits of becoming tobacco free for individuals with smoking related lung health issues. We will offer beneficial resources for providers for treating…

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…