The Tobacco Escape Hatch: Using the Patch and Other Nicotine Replacement Therapy Agents to Support Quitting
Lesson Materials
This 1-hour program will provide an overview of the five FDA-approved nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) medications and their efficacy in treating tobacco use and dependence. The use of combination NRT will also be discussed, as well as the role of pharmacists in prescribing these medications to help patients quit successfully.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Advise patients about the importance of using medication(s) as an aid for quitting.
- List the five nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) medications and describe standard dosing.
- Summarize recent data describing the efficacy of NRT agents, including combinations of NRT agents, for treating tobacco use and dependence.
- Describe the role of pharmacists in prescribing medications as part of a formal treatment plan for quitting.
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Speaker: Karen S. Hudmon, DrPH, MS, RPh, CTTS, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Purdue University College of Pharmacy
Dr. Hudmon is a Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Purdue University College of Pharmacy and Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Pharmacy. She’s a licensed pharmacist with a doctorate in public health and has nearly 30 years of tobacco research experience and has personally provided tobacco cessation training to more than 30,000 health professionals (students and licensed clinicians). Dr. Hudmon co-authored the Indiana-based initiative to advance legislation, enabling pharmacists to prescribe ALL smoking cessation medications under a statewide protocol. She was also one of the original authors of the Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation training program, which has been in existence since 1999. Currently, Dr. Hudmon’s research is funded by the NIH and the Indiana Department of Health, as she serves as the Principal Investigator for Rethink Tobacco Indiana. In addition, she‘s a Mayo-Clinic trained and certified tobacco treatment specialist (TTS) and a Certified-UMass TTS Trainer.
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