5 Self-Paced Courses to Support Recovery & Take Down Tobacco
This upcoming April, join the movement to help fight tobacco addiction and support the national day of action: Take Down Tobacco Day (formerly known as "Kick Butts Day"). From classrooms to office cubicles, playgrounds to parking lots, nicotine addiction impacts a wide variety of age groups. And many, such as adolescents, are being targeted every day by tobacco companies, pushing youths into lifelong addictions with catchy phrases, new flavors, and enticing packaging.
As clinicians, you have the power to support clients directly by learning the best preventative measures, recovery techniques, and therapeutic strategies. To help support this movement and offer you our best resources, we have put together a list of 5 of our top-rated courses to help support the fight against tobacco and nicotine addictions. Check them out today!
For more information on Take Down Tobacco Day, visit TakeDownTobacco.org and learn how you can get involved with the campaign directly.
103348 Multi-Level Strategies to Prevent Teen E-Cigarette Use
This course examines the prevalence of e-cigarette use in adolescents. It includes new products, nicotine salts, evidence-based prevention programs, how communities can help, the Synar Regulation, Truth Initiative, vaping, research findings, The 2016 Surgeon Generals Report, and the real cost.
This course is based on the recorded webinar, Multi-Level Strategies to Prevent Teen E-Cigarette Use created by SAMHSA in 2019.
102286 Tobacco, Nicotine, and E-Cigarettes: National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA
As tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, differential rates of smoking and use of other tobacco products is a significant contributor to health disparities among some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
**This course is based on the reading online article, Tobacco, Nicotine, and E-Cigarettes: National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA...
103650 Pro-tobacco Marketing and Anti-tobacco Campaigns Aimed At Vulnerable Populations
This article reviews pro-tobacco marketing and anti-tobacco campaigns targeted at eight vulnerable populations in the United States, including racial/ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ individuals, low socioeconomic status groups, rural and inner-city residents, military/veterans, and those with mental health or medical comorbidities. Analyzing 144 studies published between 2004 and 2018, the review identifies gaps in research and key industry tactics such as tailored...
103539 Food Addiction and Tobacco Use Disorder:
This narrative review explores the parallels between food addiction and tobacco use disorder, highlighting the need for a better understanding of their overlap. The review examines literature on prevalence, biology, psychology, and treatment options for both disorders. Commonalities such as dopaminergic neurocircuitry, gut microbiota, childhood adversity, and attachment insecurity are discussed. The authors also conducted a feasibility study to examine...
102563 An Argument for Change in Tobacco Treatment Options Guided by the ASAM Criteria for Patient Placement
This article examines the idea of treating tobacco use disorder like substance use disorder. While smoking kills over 480,000 people in the US annually, treatment has been nominal compared to other forms of substance use disorders. It explains nicotine use as it applies to the ASAM Criteria for Patient Placement and levels of care and surmises that there should be...
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