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NEW! RX FOR CHANGE: MENTAL HEALTH PEER SMOKING CESSATION CURRICULUM
Tobacco Free for Recovery: Assisting Mental Health Consumers with Tobacco Cessation is a two-hour online training which provides valuable information on key terms and definitions, why it is important to quit smoking, the different types of tobacco products and why they are addictive, and what helps people to quit smoking and how to help.
While this curriculum is tailored to mental health peer counselors, it is also more generally valuable to any provider or advocate interested in learning more about mental health and smoking cessation. To download the full power point version of the this and other cessation curricula please visit http://rxforchange.ucsf.edu. Or for a PDF copy of the powerpoint, click on the link below.
Copy of April 13 webinar presentation
The American Academy of Family Physicians has created a new podcast titled "How to Provide Tobacco Cessation Treatment to Patients with Mental Illness" Find out what treatments are most effective for this population and the effects of tobacco cessation pharmacotherepies on other medications. All are welcome to download a copy at http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/clinical/publichealth/tobacco/cme/podcasts.html
The AAFP has also created a new section on the Ask and Act website titled "Smoking and Mental Illness" and added mental health slides to CME presentations.
NEW! Rx for Change: Tobacco-Free for Recovery, Assisting Mental Health Consumers with Tobacco Cessation, a new cessation curriculum for Peer Counselors is now available online at http://rxforchange.ucsf.edu . With input from consumers, mental health professionals, advocates, and leaders, this 2-hour program was created to equip peer counselors with the necessary knowledge and skills to assist and support other mental health consumers with quitting smoking. A smoke-free lifestyle is viewed as a vital element on the path toward wellness and recovery.
Visit http://rxforchange.ucsf.edu and log in to find free PowerPoint slides, audience handouts, and correspondence video segments that are relevant to the Peer Counselor – Mental Health curriculum. Other Rx curriculums COMING SOON include Rx for Psychiatry. Dr. Jodi Prochaska and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, have created a 4-hour curriculum that is specific to psychiatry and has shown very promising results in changing the knowledge, attitudes, confidence, and clinical practices of psychiatry residents in treating tobacco use and dependence in their patients.
Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation, which draws heavily from the Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, is a comprehensive, turn-key program for training students and licensed clinicians in virtually any health professional field. All materials have been externally reviewed and are updated continuously to reflect current science for the treatment of tobacco use and dependence. For more information contact Reason Reyes at Reason.Reyes@ucsf.edu.
A new mental health provider cessation training curriculum will be coming soon to the Rx for Change online series. Visit http://rxforchange.ucsf.edu.
- Legacy
Tobacco Library: The Legacy
Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 7 million
documents (40+ million pages) created by major tobacco
companies related to their advertising, manufacturing,
marketing, sales, and scientific research activities. The
articles and documents below are just a few examples of
how the tobacco industry has capitalized on groups they
have termed “consumer
subcultures” which
include homeless, and the mentally ill.
- Project Scum
- Downscale
Publications / DP2
- Capital District Psych Center
- Working Party on Social Acceptability of Tobacco Use
- Tobacco
industry documents expose R.J. Reynolds marketing
plan: Project
SCUM
- Homeless Hunger Initiative
- Our Target Is
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