Dear Colleagues,
The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of
America (CADCA) are pleased to invite you to this free webinar, “Tobacco Kills: Intervention
and Policy Solutions in Addiction Treatment” on September 23, 2014 at 2:00pm Eastern Time/
11:00am Pacific Time (90 minutes).
We are honored to have Joseph Guydish, PhD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at
the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco
presenting on this topic for us.
Webinar Objectives:
Discuss the very high prevalence of smoking among persons in addiction treatment, and
some of the reasons underlying this high prevalence.
Explain the role of smoking in excess mortality as well as premature mortality among
persons who receive addiction treatment.
Describe program and policy approaches to better addressing smoking in addiction
treatment populations.
Identify the rate of quit attempts for persons in addiction treatment, and strategies for
increasing quit attempts
REGISTER HERE: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/3oxjo1mdd5q2&eom
Accreditation:
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the webinar activity.
Nurse Practitioners and Registered Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Physician Assistants: The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that the AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification.
California Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA category 1 creditTM. If you are a pharmacist in another state, you should check with your state board for approval of this credit.
Social Workers: This course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. If you a social worker in another state, you should check with your state board for approval of this credit.
SCLC will be offering free CME/CEUs for participants who join the LIVE session, on September
23, 2014. You will receive instructions on how to claim credit via the post webinar email. Don’t need to claim CME/CEUs? SCLC issues free certificates of attendance for those who want contact hours only.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues. For questions, contact Jennifer Matekuare, SCLC Operations Manager, at jmatekuare@medicine.ucsf.edu, or call toll-free (877) 509-3786. This webinar will be recorded and may be viewed online on the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center’s website after the presentation.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Unequal Opportunity Killer -World Heart Day Activities
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New SGR50 Video and
Upcoming Events!
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We are happy to share a new video and upcoming events to
help you promote the 2014 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health.
Cigarette
smoking has devastating effects on health and it is an unequal opportunity
killer. People with lower incomes, less education, and certain racial and
ethnic minorities are more likely to smoke, so they bear a bigger share of
the disease burden caused by the tobacco use epidemic. In conversations with
several leaders in tobacco control, Unequal Opportunity Killer shines a spotlight on this
health disparity, how it developed, and how tobacco companies have
contributed.
APHA Live Webcast on September 23 on Tobacco Control
Please
join APHA, CVS Health, Acting Surgeon General RADM Boris Lushniak, and a
distinguished panel to discuss new approaches to helping Americans live
tobacco-free lives. The webcast will be on September 23 from 10 AM to 1 PM,
EDT.
During the webcast, the
speakers and panel will explore how traditional and nontraditional partners
can come together to reduce tobacco use and ultimately improve population
health and reduce costs to the health care system. A diverse panel will
discuss this critical health concern and look for new solutions. We hope you
will be able to watch
the live webcast and participate via the hashtag #APHATobacco.
September 29 is World Heart Day
This annual event was founded by the World Heart
Federation 14 years ago as a global effort to raise awareness that heart
disease and stroke are the world’s leading causes of death.
Each year’s celebrations have a different theme. This
year, World Heart Day’s theme is creating heart-healthy environments.
The World Heart Federation explains that places in which we live, work and
play should not increase our risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). But
individuals frequently cannot make heart-healthy choices due to environmental
factors, such as the availability of healthy food or smoke-free zones.
This can be a great opportunity to highlight important information in the
50th Anniversary Surgeon General’s Report about secondhand smoke exposure. We
know that exposure to secondhand smoke can increase the risk for a heart
attack or a stroke. Read more about this year’s theme.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Tobacco Kills: Intervention and Policy Solutions in Addiction Treatment
The Smoking
Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC)
and the Community
Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
(CADCA) are pleased to invite you to this free webinar, “Tobacco
Kills: Intervention and Policy Solutions in Addiction Treatment” on September
23, 2014 at 2:00pm Eastern Time/ 11:00am Pacific Time (90 minutes).
We
are honored to have Joseph Guydish, PhD, MPH, Professor
of Medicine and Health Policy at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy
Studies at University of California, San Francisco presenting on this
topic for us.
Webinar Objectives:
·
Discuss
the very high prevalence of smoking among persons in addiction treatment, and
some of the reasons underlying this high prevalence.
·
Explain
the role of smoking in excess mortality as well as premature mortality among
persons who receive addiction treatment.
·
Describe
program and policy approaches to better addressing smoking in addiction
treatment populations.
·
Identify
the rate of quit attempts for persons in addiction treatment, and
strategies for increasing quit attempts
REGISTER
HERE: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/3oxjo1mdd5q2&eom
Accreditation:
The University of California,
San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.
UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with
the extent of their participation in the webinar activity.
SCLC will be offering free CME/CEUs for participants
who join the LIVE session, on September 23, 2014. You will
receive instructions on how to claim credit via the post webinar email.
Don’t need to claim
CME/CEUs? SCLC issues free
certificates of attendance for those who want contact hours only.
Please feel free to
forward this announcement to your
colleagues. For questions, contact Jennifer Matekuare, SCLC Operations
Manager, at jmatekuare@medicine.ucsf.edu, or call toll-free (877) 509-3786. This webinar
will be recorded and may be viewed online on the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center’s website after the presentation.
ActionToQuit Releases New Tobacco Cessation Guide for the Armed Forces
Partnership
for Prevention's ActionToQuit initiative released a new guide, Help Your Patients Quit Tobacco Use: An
Implementation Guide for the Armed Forces. The guide makes the case that
tobacco cessation treatment should be a standard of care at every patient
encounter and it lays out steps for treatment facilities to integrate tobacco
cessation services into clinical practice. In addition, it spotlights
military treatment facilities and health promotion and wellness centers
across the United States for their exceptional commitment to assisting
service members, veterans, and their families to break-free from tobacco
addiction. This resource can be used as a practical tool to supplement the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline on Management
of Tobacco Use (2008). |
CDC study finds more than a quarter-million youth who had never smoked a cigarette have tried e-cigarettes
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
CDC study finds
more than a quarter-million youth
who had never
smoked a cigarette have tried e-cigarettes
A Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)-authored study* found that in 2013, 263,000 young
people who had never smoked had used e-cigarettes, compared with 79,000 in
2011. For the study, CDC researchers analyzed data from the
2011, 2012, and 2013 National
Youth Tobacco Surveys of middle and high school students to assess
associations between e-cigarette use and smoking intentions among U.S. youth
who had never smoked conventional cigarettes.
For this
analysis, researchers used established methods to identify youth who are
classified as having smoking intentions. Youth who reported they would
definitely not smoke in the next year and reported they would definitely not
smoke if offered a cigarette by a friend were defined as not having an
intention to smoke. All others were classified as having positive intention
to smoke conventional cigarettes. Previous research has demonstrated that
these youth are more likely to initiate smoking in the future.
Other key findings of the study include:
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Ever users of e-cigarettes were almost twice as likely
to have smoking intentions than never users of e-cigarettes, 43.9% compared
with 21.5%.
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As shown in previous studies, the greater the number of
advertising sources (internet, magazine and newspaper, retail environment,
and television or movies) to which young people were exposed, the more likely
they are to be at risk for initiation of smoking:
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13% of students who said they had no exposures to such
ads had smoking intentions
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20.4% among those who reported exposures from one to
two ad sources
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25.6% among those who reported exposures from three to
four ad sources.
There is evidence that nicotine’s adverse effects on
adolescent brain development could result in lasting deficits in cognitive
function. Nicotine is highly addictive. About three out of every
four teen smokers become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few
years. Each day,
more than 3,200 American youth smoke their first cigarette. The Surgeon
General has concluded that unless the smoking rate is
rapidly reduced, 5.6 million American children alive today – about one in
every 13—will die prematurely from a smoking-related disease.
The National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) is an annual
survey conducted by CDC in collaboration with FDA to provide national data on
long-term, intermediate, and short-term indicators key to the design,
implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive tobacco prevention and
control programs. The NYTS also serves as a baseline for comparing progress
toward meeting selected Healthy
People 2020 goals for
reducing tobacco use among adolescents.
More than 50 years since the landmark Surgeon
General’s Report
linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, smoking remains the leading cause
of preventable death and disease in the United States, killing nearly half a
million Americans every year. More than 16 million Americans live with
a smoking-related disease. Smoking-related diseases cost Americans $132
billion a year in direct health care expenses, much of which comes in
taxpayer-supported payments.
For
additional information on CDC’s work to prevent smoking and tobacco use,
please visit www.cdc.gov/tobacco or contact Jennifer Greaser at JGreaser@cdc.gov.
* Access to
the full publication is available only by subscription. A CDC summary
of the paper’s findings is here: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/youth/e-cigarettes/index.htm
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