Education and Training

Talking to patients about quitting tobacco and tracking their quit progress helps them understand that you, as a clinician, are on their side. However, you may not be sure how to start the conversation. Below are training resources offering evidence-based information and practical advice to help your patients quit.

• Rx for Change: Clinician-Assisted Tobacco Cessation.external icon A comprehensive tobacco cessation training program for health professionals of all disciplines which aims to equip clinicians with evidence-based knowledge and skills for assisting patients with quitting tobacco use.
• Healthcare Provider Training Videos,external icon University of Wisconsin-Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. Multiple training videos aimed at outpatient, inpatient, and behavioral healthcare providers from a variety of specialties. Includes training on using motivational interviewing to help patients quit smoking.
• Medscape video (Conducting a Brief 2A & R Tobacco Intervention).external icon An informational video featuring Tim McAfee, MD, former senior medical officer to CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health. This video shares the steps that you can take to conduct brief interventions with your patients.
• Medscape video – HIV and Smokingexternal icon John Brooks, MD, Leader of the HIV Epidemiology Research Team at the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention explains the added dangers of smoking with HIV, and what steps you can take to help your patients.