80064940 - Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Campus Tobacco Certification Course 9/3/2024

Tuesday, September 3, 2024, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Online


To improve the current burden our local communities face with tobacco usage, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center offers a tobacco treatment specialist program for the state of Maryland. Each tobacco treatment specialist will undergo: • Six hours of in-person training • Documentation of 50 hours of tobacco treatment skill implementation • Completion of one 30 minute examination Upon the completion of the aforementioned requirements, each person will be awarded a certificate as a certified “Johns Hopkins Bayview Tobacco Treatment Specialist".

1. Describe how cigarettes and tobacco products are designed to create an addiction to nicotine.
2. Evaluate the current pharmacological therapy for tobacco dependence and the evidence that supports their usage.
3. Outline the usage of controllers versus relievers when providing medication for tobacco dependence.
4. Compare and contrast habits versus compulsions, and how that relates to nicotine addiction.
5. Distinguish between the fundamental role of healthcare agents and professionals in tobacco independence.
6. Illustrate how to challenge assumptions of active smokers and help assure smoking cessation is approached comfortably.
7. Recognize how stages of change can be used to help a person quit smoking.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Johns Hopkins University adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

No faculty are available for this activity at this time.