The Ask the Expert series invites specialists in the field of tobacco cessation to give a brief presentation and provide an open forum for the community to ask questions and share knowledge. If you missed a session, just click on the link below to access the recording.

• April 15, 2025: Holistic Approaches to Tobacco Treatment: The Healthy Living Clinic Initiative with Desiree Backman, DrPH, MS, RD, Neal Kohatsu, MD, MPH, FACPM and Iqra Ahmad, BS, MS,
  • Improving System-Based Tobacco Cessation in a Community Health Clinic
• March 20, 2025: Beyond Burnout: Self-Care as a Strategic Imperative with Steven Kite
  • NAMI-CA Self-Care Guide 
  • NAMI Helpline: What is Self-Care? How Can Practicing Self-Care Help with My Mental Health?
• February 27, 2025: Smokeless but Not Harmless: Addressing Nicotine and Tobacco Use Among Rural California Firefighters with Elizabeth Meza and Scott Jennie
  • Sample Smokeless Tobacco Policy 
  • 'Best Practices to Reduce Cancer in the Fire Service: Off the Job' Factsheet 
• October 23, 2024: So You’re a Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS)… Now What? with Caroline Cranos, MPH, NCTTP
• August 7, 2024: Trauma Informed Care and Tobacco Cessation with Raul Almazar, RN, MA
  • CDC/Kaiser ACE study information
  • ACES Aware
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Besel Van Der Kolk
  • Harvard Center for the Developing of the Child
  • Northwestern University cortisol study
  • CaCTC Trauma-Informed Care in Tobacco Use Disorder Treatment
• June 26, 2024: Addressing Tobacco Use Among People Experiencing Homelessness with Dr. Maya Vijayaraghavan
  • Tip sheet
• April 10, 2024: Medication for Tobacco Cessation 101 with Dr. Robin Corelli
  • Pharmacologic Product Guide
  • Relapse Protocol
• January 30, 2024: Helping Clients Quit Vaping with Dr. Andrea Pratt
  • CaCTC Vaping Cessation Fact Sheet
• December 6, 2023: How to use billing codes for treating tobacco use disorder (TUD) with Dr. Brian Hurley
  • Billing FAQ 

Kick It California provides evidence-based tobacco cessation services. It's free and it works! Below are educational resources for providers from our partners at Kick It :

• Kick It California Health Professionals Webpage (listed under webinar trainings)
• Kick It California Tobacco Cessation Education & Training Resources Webpage
• AB 541: Helping Tobacco Users in Substance Use Treatment - This flyer (also available in Spanish) provides information on how bill AB 541 can help tobacco users in substance use treatment and how to refer patients or clients to Kick It California cessation services

For all SCLC and CaCTC webinar topics - check out our collection of recorded webinars: https://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/cmeces-webinar-collections

Each year, the California Center for Tobacco Cessation brings dynamic, interactive trainings to local communities across California to assist local behavioral health facilities with developing wellness policies to promote healthy living and tobacco-free recovery. Participants learn how to integrate tobacco dependence treatment into existing behavioral health services, support behavioral health treatment facilities in becoming tobacco-free, transform smoke breaks into wellness breaks, and effectively implement AB541 requirements. In 2025, the CaCTC will host behavorial health regional trainings in two counties: Shasta and Orange. 

Collection F

• This Collection of 2024 recorded webinars from SCLC includes nine webinars, for a total of 13.0 CE credits. Topics include people experiencing homelessness and tobacco cessation, tobacco and opioid use disorder, tobacco cessation in oral cancer prevention, the tobacco endgame, CMS guidance and improving tobacco cessation, menthol and emotional brain training, curious science of cravings, commercial tobacco cessation programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and a comprehensive compassionate community-based healthcare model. View the Collection Here 

This is a comprehensive tobacco cessation training program that equips health professional students and practicing clinicians, of all disciplines, with evidence-based knowledge and skills for assisting patients with quitting. Thanks to support from the California Department of Tobacco Policy and Prevention, a certificate of completion and 4.0 CMEs will be provided at no charge for California providers for those who complete this series. Accreditation is for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and addiction professionals.

Register here:

https://cme-reg.configio.com/pd/4293/rx-for-change-clinician-assisted-tobacco-cessation

• Kick It CA created a 13-minute video training for healthcare providers to support AB 541 implementation. Watch "Tobacco and Mental Health"

• Click here for more cessation training videos

To see all available funding opportunities through the California Department of Public Health, California Tobacco Prevention Program please visit: CTCP Tobacco Control Funding opportunities and Resources (catcp.org)