TOBACCO TREATMENT COUNSELING WITH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PATIENTS – CAN IT BE DONE?

Lesson Materials

People living with mental illness or substance use disorders (i.e. behavioral health conditions) have disproportionately higher rates of tobacco use than the general population. As a result, they also have higher rates of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. To address these disparities, behavioral health providers must actively provide tobacco treatment and promote cessation among clients.

This one-hour webinar event will review the 5A’s of tobacco treatment, an evidence-based treatment model for working with tobacco dependent clients. Specific behavioral treatment strategies will be discussed, including ways to motivate clients who may be hesitant to quit and key issues to address when providing counseling.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Describe the impact of a behavioral health diagnosis on quitting smoking
• Summarize how clinicians can counsel behavioral health patients to quit tobacco successfully
• Provide a brief review of motivational interviewing (MI) techniques

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Speaker: Frank Vitale, MA, National Director for the Pharmacy Partnership for Tobacco Cessation

Frank Vitale has worked in the smoking cessation field since 1987 designing cessation programs, educating over 20,000 health professionals in how to help patients stop tobacco use, and counseling nearly 10,000 patients to quit. Frank has been a member of the Rx for Change team since the program’s inception.

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