Curricula

Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist (CTTS)

Training programs listed on the ATTUD website

Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs Accreditation for Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Programs

Also, check virtual programs (remote and affordable):  https://ctttp.org/accredited-programs/ (virtual trainings are noted in red under individual training program descriptions)

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Student Veterans and Tobacco Cessation

Project UNIFORM offers resources for anyone currently working with or interested in working with military communities. Contact them to learn more about customizable trainings and see what's coming up on their site under Trainings & Events

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New York State: Tobacco Recovery Resource Exchange

This resource hub helps health professionals integrate evidence-based tobacco interventions into prevention, treatment, and recovery programs. This site offers online trainings and provides helpful documents and toolkits that can be downloaded.

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ADDRESSING TOBACCO DEPENDENCE IN THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM: TRAINING IN THE "BUCKET APPROACH"

This course from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents evidence-based tobacco dependence interventions that are tailored to smokers who are affected by mental illness and/or other addictions. Up to 8.25 FREE continuing education credits are available. 

TARGET AUDIENCE

Social workers, case managers, psychotherapists/counselors, physicians (primarily psychiatrists), nurses, nurse practitioners, health care administrators working in a behavioral healthcare setting

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

As a result of participating in this learning activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Determine the evidence-based tobacco dependence interventions appropriate for the motivational state of their patients who smoke.
  2. Provide evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment effectively to their patients who smoke.
  3. Organize the treatment of tobacco dependence as a population intervention within their treatments settings.
  4. Develop effective teams to implement this population intervention.

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RX FOR CHANGE

Clinician Assisted Tobacco Cessation Curriculum
A comprehensive tobacco cessation education tool that provides not only clinicians and students, but also clinical staff, with the knowledge and skills necessary to offer comprehensive tobacco cessation counseling to patients who use tobacco. It covers information about the epidemiology of tobacco use, pharmacotherapy, and brief behavioral interventions.

The following versions are also available:

    • The 5 A’s
    • Ask-Advise-Refer
    • Psychiatry
    • Cancer Care Providers
    • Cardiology Providers
    • Mental Health Peer Counselors
    • Surgical Providers

For a comprehensive, 3-part training webinar on Rx for Change, see: Tobacco Cessation Education, A Training Program for Faculty. Originally created for faculty to add Rx for Change into their cirrculum, this webinar is useful and open to all audiences. Free CE credit is available.

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