Course Code: REL-ACU-0-APFSC
Hours: 1.5
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2026
Learning Objectives:
Identify the stages of behavior change that patients experience during the process of smoking cessation.
Select three smoking cessation approaches or aids that healthcare providers can suggest to patients.
Identify interprofessional healthcare team members and their roles in smoking cessation.
Recognize key considerations with the FDA-approved smoking cessation medications available.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Finding Reasons to Quit
Prevalence and Costs of Smoking
Importance of a Program
Section 3: Changing Behaviors
Clinical Practice Guidelines
The Challenge of Changing Behavior
Review
Section 4: Finding the Right Method
Preparation Stage of Behavior Change
Setting Goals
Action Stage of Behavior Change
Need for a Team-Based Approach
Section 5: Pharmaceutical Adjuncts to Quitting
Medication Therapies
Section 6: Nonpharmaceutical Adjuncts to Quitting
Conditioning Methods
Hypnosis
E-Cigarettes
Section 7: Measuring Success
Factors that Affect Success
Maintenance Stage of Behavior Change
Termination Stage of Behavior Change
Section 8: Clinical Vignette
Meet Keith
Section 9: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributor
Resources
References
Writer: Ashley M. Coffey, RN
Ashley Coffey, RN, BSN, BA is a SME nurse writer for Relias with a focus in Acute Care. She holds three bachelor's degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill: in English Literature, Linguistics, and Nursing. With over ten years of nursing experience in critical care, post-surgical care, and post-anesthesia care units in university and community hospitals across the United States, she fosters a particular passion for balancing time constraints with necessary, engaging education for nurses.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Beginner level Social Workers; Nursing Personnel; Nutrition and Dietetics Professionals; Occupational Therapist; Pharmacists; Respiratory Therapists; in the following settings: Hospitals: Acute.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.