Learn About Clinician Approaches to Tobacco Cessation on Webcast Series. Participants will gain an understanding of evidence-based strategies to support patients in quitting tobacco including behavioral interventions and pharmacotherapy options. Actuarily, on average, a woman who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will live 11 years less than a woman who doesn’t smoke. Men who smoke a pack a day live 12 years less than non-smoking men. If you do the math, that works out to 14 minutes of life lost for every cigarette a person smokes. It’s a childhood epidemic with 90% of smokers beginning before age 18. By the time they are adults, they are fully addicted and quitting becomes very hard because of the severity of nicotine withdrawal symptoms. But the good news is that we can help ameliorate those symptoms to help patients quit their nicotine habits.
Joining us today are two of the Ohio State University’s tobacco cessation experts. Lindsey Lee is a clinical pharmacist in the Division of General Internal Medicine. And Suzanne Higginbotham is also a clinical pharmacist in the Division of General Internal Medicine.
What you’ll learn in this webcast
As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:
- Understand the health impacts of tobacco use
- Apply evidence-based cessation strategies and interventions for nicotine dependence
- Implement appropriate treatment and follow up protocols to enhance patient adherence and reduce relapse
You’ll also learn about the following:
- Nicotine dependence tests
- The pharmacist’s role in tobacco cessation
- Nicotine replacement strategies for the heavy smoker
- Cytisinicline (cytisine)
- Pharmacologic approach to inpatients who are smokers
- Pharmacologic approach to the smoker with coronary artery disease
- Tobacco cessation and adolescents
- Weight gain and tobacco cessation
- E-cigarettes and tobacco cessation
- Cough increase in the short-term after smoking cessation
- Tobacco cessation in the habitual marijuana smoker
- Over the counter pharmacologic therapies
- Pharmacist prescriptive authority
You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.
Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.