Educational Goals

Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation is a comprehensive tobacco cessation training program that equips health professional students and practicing clinicians, of all disciplines, with evidence-based knowledge and skills for assisting patients with quitting.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this activity, the participant should be able to:

1. List five health risks associated with chronic tobacco use.
2. Describe alternative nicotine delivery systems (ANDS) and understand health risks associated with these products.
3. Review pharmacodynamics of nicotine in the body and its role in addiction.
4. Recognize drug interactions with tobacco smoke.
5. Understand the 5 A’s for promoting tobacco cessation among patients: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange.
6. Compare various tobacco cessation medications, including the safety and efficacy data, for the management of cessation.
7. Develop a treatment regimen that incorporates the most effective medications for tobacco cessation, including drugs, doses, routes, and frequency of administration.
8. Counsel a tobacco user on the proper use of the all first-line pharmacologic agents (including dosing, instructions on use, potential side effects, and precautions).
9. Describe the services provided by the tobacco quitline (1-800-QUIT NOW).

Topics

1. Introduction and Epidemiology of Tobacco Use
2. Pharmacology of Nicotine and Drug Interactions with Tobacco Smoke
3. Forms of Tobacco and Alternative Nicotine Delivery Systems
4. Behavioral Counseling for Tobacco Cessation
5. Medications for Tobacco Cessation
6. Patient Encounters
7. Responsible Conduct of Research

This UCSF CME activity was planned and developed to uphold academic standards to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor; adhere to requirements to protect health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA); and include a mechanism to inform learners when unapproved or unlabeled uses of therapeutic products or agents are discussed or referenced.

All individuals in a position to control content, including Dr. Karen Hudmon, Dr. Robin Corelli, Dr. Lisa Kroon, and Dr. Frank Vitale,  have disclosed they have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities whose primary business purpose is the manufacturing, promotion, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare goods used on or consumed by patients.

Method of Participation/ Instruction for Obtaining Credit

No cost to participants, courtesy of the National Cancer Institute and the University of California San Francisco Smoking Cessation Leadership Center.

Accreditation

Physicians

The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

This activity has been approved for 4.0 contact hours (0.4 CEUs) under the Universal Activity Number 0005-9999-23-001-H01-P.

Nurse Practitioners and Registered Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants: The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that the AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification.

California Psychologists: This educational activity is recognized by the California Board of Psychology as meeting the continuing education requirements toward license renewal for California psychologists. Psychologists are responsible for reporting their own attendance to the California Board of Psychology. Psychologists from other states should check with their respective licensing boards.

Supplemental Material:

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No instructor or facilitator is permitted to promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients, based upon current, accepted standards of practice. All CAMFT-certified education must provide training on how to treat all clients in an ethically and clinically sound manner.

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