273177 Effective Clinical and Policy Interventions to Increase Tobacco Use Cessation

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 : 9:20 AM - 9:45 AM

Ann Malarcher, PhD, MSPH , Office of Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
  
Dental health care providers who identify tobacco users, offer brief advice and medications, and provide referrals to individual, group, and/or telephone (1-800-QUIT NOW) counseling can double to triple their patients' chances of quitting. Smoke-free policies, increasing the price of tobacco products, and mass media campaigns, such as the recent National Tobacco Education Campaign, are additional community-based efforts that support and increase a tobacco user's ability to successfully quit.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs

Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate knowledge on how to identify and intervene with tobacco users in dental offices and why it is important for dental practitioners to support community-based policies and interventions that increase cessation.

Keywords: Tobacco, Health Indices

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been employed as a Senior Scientific Advisor in the Epidemiology Branch of the Office on Smoking and Health for eight years with work focusing on the epidemiology of tobacco use and cessation. Among my scientific interests has been the development of clinical and population-based strategies for increasing tobacco use cessation among US adults and youth.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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