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Tobacco Cessation

Course Description

Target Audience: Social workers, counselor, and other mental health professionals.

Course Content Level: Advanced

Number of CE Hours: 6

Type of CE hours: Clinical

Delivery format: Reading based asynchronous distance learning.

Course completion requirements:
How to Obtain Continuing Education Credit
Please follow the steps below to obtain the necessary contact hours of home study continuing
education credit:

1. Read course objectives.
2. Study the course text:

3. The questions for the final examination are attached here. Answer these questions by marking
your Scantron card:
Write your name on every Scantron card in the space provided. Also write the exam title
in the space marked “Subject”.
True/false examination Mark the Scantron card as follows: Use A for true answers, B for
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Multiple-choice questions Choose the letter of the correct answer and mark the Scantron
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change.
4. Complete the licensure information on the examination sheet.

5. Return the scantron card, examination sheet and student evaluation of the course.
You’ll need 70% correct score on the post-test for successful completion of the course.

6. Retain a copy of the answers for your record.
Homestead Schools, Inc. is solely responsible for the quality and content of this CE
program and for the selection of its instructor/author, and receives no outside financial
support in the preparation, presentation or implementation of its CE activities.
The sponsor has no affiliation with companies whose products or services are mentioned
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informational value. The sponsor’s sole source of revenue is the tuition paid by
participants like you in its CE program.

Instructor Credentials: N/A

ACE Provider Approval Statement: Homestead Schools, Inc., 1070, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Assoiciation of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses for continuing education credit.
ACE provider approval period: 4/2/2023-4/2/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 6 Clinical continuing education credits.

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Cancellation/Refund Policy: Should you need to cancel your order or if you are not satisfied with the quality of our course material, you can return the course (before a certificate is issued) within 90 days and receive a prompt and full refund (less shipping and handling.)

Course last updated: June, 2024

Course Outline

This concise handbook offers a useful outline of common oral diseases and dental conditions found in smokers. Its purpose is to alert dental professionals to particular risks of systemic diseases to tobacco users.

Current strategies for treating tobacco dependence offer primary care providers with tools to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with chronic tobacco use. Promoting tobacco cessation is part of the oral health practitioner’s approach to delivering comprehensive care.

The guide is written to help professionals develop effective tactics in assisting patients in recovery from tobacco addiction. The authors propose a combination of interventional therapies, including nicotine-replacement therapy and smoking cessation counseling.

The authors make a strong case for the role of the oral health team as vanguards of patient education, disease prevention, and effective treatment.

Special features:

  • Includes FAQs from tobacco users with sample answer by dental professionals
  • Appendix provides useful tobacco cessation resources on the Internet
  • CD-ROM with complete text and images in color
  • Continuing Education questions included on CD-ROM

About Authors

Abel Rahim Mohammad, DDS, MS, MPH
Professor of Oral Medicine and Geriatric Dentistry
Director of Tobacco Cessation and Community Outreach Programs
College of Dentistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Learning Objectives

After completing this course you’ll be able to:

  1. Describe the role of oral health professional in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with chronic tobacco use.
  2. Outline common oral diseases and dental conditions found in smokers.
  3. Develop effective tactics in assisting patients in recovery from tobacco addiction.
  4. Prescribe pharmacotherapy for patients who use tobacco.
  5. Provide counseling to tobacco-using patients

Course Contents

  1. Tobacco Use and Oral Health Professional
  2. Tobacco Use and Oral Diseases
  3. Tobacco Use and Systemic Diseases
  4. Intervening with Tobacco Users
  5. Pharmacotherapy for Tobacco Cessation: Specific Medications
  6. Patients Who Are Not Ready to Make a Quit Attempt
  7. What to Say to Your Tobacco-Using Patient
  8. Using Dental Codes for Tobacco Counseling for the Control and Prevention of Oral Disease