COE Tobacco Use and Health Disparities

December 14, 2022

The webinar will provide background to the healthcare team on how tobacco companies have targeted marketing campaigns to areas where substance use is also prevalent. Using this information they can urge their clients to change their beliefs and encourage tobacco cessation.

Agenda:

  1. Tobacco industry narrative
    1. Tobacco use as a social justice issue
      1. Poverty
      2. Racism
      3. Homophobia
      4. Stigma
    2. Tobacco industry targeting strategy
      1. Deceptive advertising
      2. Historical myths from the tobacco industry
      3. Myths that continue to the present day
  2. Tobacco use rates
    1. Tobacco use and psychiatric history
    2. The disparity of tobacco use
    3. Death and disease related to tobacco use
  3. Tobacco use disorder
    1. Mechanics
  4. Substance use disorder and tobacco use
    1. Mental health and substance use
  5. What can we do?
    1. Advocacy
    2. Reframe language
    3. Consider tobacco recovery
    4. Evidence-based treatment
  6. Next steps
    1. Training series
    2. Other learning opportunities

Target Audience

Nurse

Physician

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

• Define the origin of prevailing tobacco-related social norms in the recovery and treatment culture.

• Identify and counter 6 harmful misconceptions that serve to sustain tobacco use.

• Identify 3 strategies to promote evidence-based tobacco use disorder interventions within a recovery-oriented framework.

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
12/14/2022
Course expires: 
03/31/2023
Event starts: 
12/14/2022 - 12:00pm EST
Event ends: 
12/14/2022 - 1:30pm EST
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The webinar will provide background to the healthcare team on how tobacco companies have targeted marketing campaigns to areas where substance use is also prevalent. Using this information they can urge their clients to change their beliefs and encourage tobacco cessation.

Agenda:

  1. Tobacco industry narrative
    1. Tobacco use as a social justice issue
      1. Poverty
      2. Racism
      3. Homophobia
      4. Stigma
    2. Tobacco industry targeting strategy
      1. Deceptive advertising
      2. Historical myths from the tobacco industry
      3. Myths that continue to the present day
  2. Tobacco use rates
    1. Tobacco use and psychiatric history
    2. The disparity of tobacco use
    3. Death and disease related to tobacco use
  3. Tobacco use disorder
    1. Mechanics
  4. Substance use disorder and tobacco use
    1. Mental health and substance use
  5. What can we do?
    1. Advocacy
    2. Reframe language
    3. Consider tobacco recovery
    4. Evidence-based treatment
  6. Next steps
    1. Training series
    2. Other learning opportunities
Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Tony Klein

Bill Stauffer

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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