Center for Tobacco Independence

February 6th: 1:00pm to 3:30pm EST February 7th: 1:00pm to 3:30pm EST February 8th: 1:00pm to 3:45pm EST   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. Virtual: Includes 3 days of training…

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

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.