Education & Training

We know what works when it comes to helping people that smoke, quit.

Training Programs For Clinicians offered by the University of Massachusetts Medical School

The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) is a national leader in tobacco dependency treatment research and training for clinicians. UMass offers a wide range of continuing education (CEU) and skills training programs to help clinicians to intervene successfully with person who uses tobacco.

See a list of all the Certified Tobacco Treatment Training Programs (CTTTP) – accredited programs pn the CTTTP website.

ATTUD is an organization of providers dedicated to the promotion of and increased access to evidence-based tobacco treatment for the tobacco user.

Working with People that Use Tobacco

In 2000, synthesizing the evidence from a review of more than 6,000 research articles, the US Public Health Service published a Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. This document was updated in 2008. The Update recommends specific elements to increase quit rates among person who uses tobacco: a system to identify person who uses tobacco, clinician brief interventions, FDA-approved medications, and behavioral counseling.

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s free web-based CME/CE program on treating tobacco use and dependence has a new home.

It’s now available at: http://www.ocpd.wisc.edu/tobaccocme.html

More than 30,000 clinicians have completed this CME/CE program since it was launched on Medscape with the publication of the 2008 PHS Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. The program has been updated and is now available directly through the University of Wisconsin for ease of use. Participants will still earn one hour of CME/CE credit (physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists) and the program is still free of charge.

NH Indoor Smoking Law Amended

New Hampshire lawmakers passed an amendment to the NH Indoor Smoking Act in June 2007. The amended statute protects the workforce and the public by reducing exposure to secondhand smoke.

Effective September 17, 2007, restaurants and bars in New Hampshire became smoke-free. New Hampshire joins the rest of New England by implementing such a law.