QuitNow Live Workshop: Treating Tobacco Dependence

The BC Lung Association is offering a free workshop to health professionals with the goal of encouraging confidence, commitment and capacity for delivering tobacco cessation interventions.

Through education, role playing and scenario discussions, participants will be able to:

•      Articulate the important role health professionals have in treating tobacco dependence

•      Use the 5A’s: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange to provide brief tobacco cessation interventions

•      Assess a client’s readiness, willingness and ability to quit using tobacco

•      Identify barriers and propose solutions using motivational interview techniques

•      Offer tobacco cessation pharmacotherapy support

•      Confidently speak about the BC Smoking Cessation Program

•      Describe QuitNow support services including phone, web, text and social media

•      Refer clients to QuitNow for tobacco cessation support

Upcoming workshops:

March 30, 2016 – Surrey

March 30, 2016 – Abbottsford

For more information and to register, email quitnow@bc.lung.ca. To learn more about QuitNow, visit www.quitnow.ca