Session: Integrating Tobacco Cessation in your Practice


Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

4329.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Oral

Integrating Tobacco Cessation in your Practice

Smoking accounts for one out of every five deaths in the United States. It is the most important modifiable cause of premature death, responsible annually for an estimated 5 million years of potential life lost. Although smoking has declined in the past three decades, 25% of adults in the U.S. continue to smoke. Health care providers have both the opportunity and professional obligation to modify smoking behavior and address nicotine dependency in their patients.

Learning Objectives: 1 Identify programs available for use in tobacco cessation. 2 Describe trends and issues regarding smoking cessation. 3 Explain current guidelines on smoking cessation intervention.

Moderator(s):

Ann Slaughter, DDS, MPH

4:30 PM

ADHA development of a tobacco cessation web site--AskAdviseRefer

Sandra Nagel Beebe, RDH, PhD

4:50 PM

Smoking cessation: New practice guidelines

Carol Southard, RN, MSN

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by:

Oral Health

CE Credits:

CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Oral Health

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA