Pulse: Don't Let It Cloud Your Future: Role of Second-Line Options, Vaping and GLP-1s in Smoking Cessation_enduring

New medications and new guidelines are constantly being released. Pharmacists need a mechanism to keep up with these new medications and guidelines.

Smoking cessation leads to a wide health benefit for patients, however, multiple patients fail first line options due to side effects of medications or nonadherence. It is important to explore second line options, vaping as an alternative and adjunctive therapy for smoking cessation to increase smoking cessation outcomes.

Target Audience

Pharmacist

Learning Objectives

1. Define the benefits and limitations of second-line options of clonidine and nortriptyline in smoking cessation.
2. Evaluate vaping as an alternative option in smoking cessation.
3. Discuss the literature surrounding the use of GLP-1 in smoking cessations.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
Course opens: 
04/27/2024
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Part of: 
Pulse CE

New medications and new guidelines are constantly being released. Pharmacists need a mechanism to keep up with these new medications and guidelines.

Smoking cessation leads to a wide health benefit for patients, however, multiple patients fail first line options due to side effects of medications or nonadherence. It is important to explore second line options, vaping as an alternative and adjunctive therapy for smoking cessation to increase smoking cessation outcomes.

UPMC Presbyterian
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Iryna Kurochka, PharmD

In support of improving patient care, 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.

 

Pharmacy (CPE)

This knowledge-based activity provides 1.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.

 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
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