Smoking Cessation: It All Begins and Ends with Your Patient - Live Webinar on July 29, 2024 8PM ET
Learn how to effectively educate and guide patients on smoking cessation and vaping. Understand the mindset, products, and available cessation agents to make impactful conversations with patients. Save lives!
About this webinar
Every single U.S. Surgeon General has stated that one of the most pivotal and impactful healthcare professional efforts is educating and guiding patients around smoking cessation. Given that half a million Americans die from tobacco-related concerns every single year, this topic is perhaps of the largest concern for every single healthcare professional in our country. However, clinicians often juggle intense schedules and countless distractions while trying to provide patient care, and need efficient strategies and accessible information to help patients.
Our country has not had a U.S. Surgeon General over the past few decades avoid the general theme of smoking cessation being the single most important effort to discuss with respective patients. Can, or should, vaping be utilized as smoking cessation? To answer this question, and countless others, we as healthcare professionals truly need to understand the mindset of someone choosing to smoke tobacco or vape, along with the products being utilized, and the available cessation agents, to ultimately even attempt to have continual and impactful conversations with our patients. Join our discussion to “clear the air” on how to best improve and save the lives of our patients currently smoking or vaping.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
Identify the pharmacology of nicotine and respective milligrams of nicotine in traditional tobacco products, electronic cigarettes, and vaping devices
Recall pharmacological properties of both over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription nicotine replacement therapies in respect to products, dosage, and administration
Recall pharmacological properties of FDA-Approved prescription smoking cessation medications in respect to products, dosage, and administration
Instructors
Mark Garofoli, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, CPE is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Experiential Learning for the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Pharmacy (SoP), a faculty member in the WVU School of Medicine Pain Fellowship Program, and a Clinical Pain Management Pharmacist at the WVU Medicine Center for Integrative Pain Management. Dr. Garofoli received his PharmD at the University of Pittsburgh SoP in 2004 and his MBA from Strayer University in 2008. He is board certified in Geriatric Care (BGCP) along with being a certified pain educator (CPE) and certified tobacco treatment specialist (CTTS). He began his career with CVS Health in community pharmacy management, then worked as a Humana Healthcare MTM clinical pharmacist, leading to the development of patient-centered and managed care centered programs and the Safe & Effective Management of Pain state guidelines.