Description

This training session is ideal for professionals who would like information on brief intervention and supporting smokers to quit. These sessions will provide participants with information on:

• Understanding addiction and identifying the client’s smoking behaviour.
• The health effects of smoking and its impact in the mouth.
• Engaging clients in the smoking conversation in 3 – 5 minutes (brief intervention) as part of routine care.
• How to provide clients with valuable quitting tips and strategies.
• The use of pharmacotherapy and recommendations for its proper usage.
• Support services available to refer patients for additional information and support .

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify their client’s smoking behaviour, including their dependency to nicotine, their triggers to smoke and their readiness to change.
• Recognise the impact of smoking in the mouth.
• Be able to put in practice the ‘5As’, an international framework for helping smoker to quit in as little as 3 – 5 minutes.

Ms. Stavroula Zandes

Ms. Stavroula Zandes background is in psychology and working with Quit Victoria, Cancer Council of Victoria, for 20 years in tobacco control. She provided smoking cessation training in the areas of acute care, oral health, general practice, pharmacy, community health, pregnancy, and Aboriginal …

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