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Syllabus: Supporting Implementation of Smoking Cessation Programs in Public Housing Primary Care Settings Learning Collaborative 2021

About This Learning Collaborative:

According to “Health Picture of HUD-Assisted Adults,” a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), over 33% of those receiving assistance from HUD are current smokers. On December 5, 2016, HUD announced an initiative to ban smoking on public housing premises. Since then, the National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH) has been providing training and technical assistance to Health Center Programs to help their patients quit smoking. 

The NCHPH 2021 Smoking Cessation Learning Collaborative will build upon the foundation established with our 2020 Collaborative by expanding the training to topics that affect an individual’s ability to quit and stay quit. To this end we will conduct four, one-hour webinars; one dealing with effective stress management techniques, one with relapse prevent and treatment, and a third with issues particular to patients with behavioral health or substance abuse concerns. The final webinar will be an interactive, case based, session where participants will have an opportunity to create “treatment plans” for patients in the contemplative, action, and relapse stages of quitting prior to the training and then to refine those plans with other attendees. This will give attendees experience with real life quitting scenarios and how to deal with them. 

Throughout the course of the four webinars attendees will also be given the opportunity to discuss their experiences with conducting group and individual cessation programs during these past six months at their respective clinics as well as access to Frank Vitale to strategize about ways to improve their programs and to overcome any lingering barriers. This aspect of the program will be accomplished through individual consultations with each attendee. 

Moderators

Frank Vitale, M.A.

National Director, Pharmacy Partnership for Tobacco Cessation Clinical Assistant Professor, Purdue College of Pharmacy

Frank Vitale, National Director of the Pharmacy Partnership for Tobacco Cessation, has worked in the smoking cessation field since 1987 designing cessation programs, educating over 20,000 health professionals in how to help patients stop tobacco use, and counseling nearly 10,000 patients to quit.

He received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. Vincent College in 1974 and a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Duquesne University in 1988.
He entered the field as a Health Educator, then as Clinic Coordinator for the Lung Health Study, researching the differential effects of smoking cessation and an inhaled medication (Atrovent) on the prevention of COPD in identified high risk individuals. He has run numerous groups for the I Quit Project of the Smoking Research Group at the University of Pittsburgh as well as designed the intervention for some of these programs.

Jose Leon, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer, National Center for Health in Public Housing

Dr. Jose Leon is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at the National Center for Health in Public Housing. In his role, Dr. Leon provides training and technical assistance to Community Health Centers serving public housing residents on emerging clinical topics and Quality Improvement/Quality Assurance systematic actions that lead to measurable improvement in health care services and the health status of underserved and vulnerable populations.

Dr. Leon heads clinical quality and emergency preparedness working groups that provide assistance/training to over 106 Community Health Centers across the nation.

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Structure of the Curriculum:

Session #1: Maintaining the Quit: Effective Stress Management

Wednesday, September 8, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM ET

Learning Objectives:
1. Debunk the myth that smoking is an effective way to deal with stress.
2. Enumerate various proven stress management techniques, in depth, that can be used to maintain a quit.
3. Discuss how to successfully teach these techniques to patients.

Session Resources:
Recording and Slides (additional resource included)


Session #2: Relapse Prevention and Treatment

Wednesday, September 15, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM ET

Learning Objectives:
1. Review effective strategies to prevent relapse.
2.Examine behavioral techniques to help individuals regain abstinence after a relapse.
3.Discuss medication modification recommendations for various relapse scenarios.

Session Resources:
Recording and Slides (additional resource included)


Session #3: Quitting for Individuals with Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse Issues

Wednesday, September 22, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM ET

Learning Objectives:
1. Examine the challenges posed by individuals with behavioral health issues who want to quit smoking.
2.Review the concerns confronted by individuals with substance abuse diagnoses who want to quit smoking.
3.Provide effective strategies for clinicians to employ with both groups when designing a cessation program.

Session Resources:
Recording and Slides


Session #4: Case Studies

Wednesday, September 29, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM ET

Learning Objectives:
1. Create behavioral “treatment plans” for individuals in the contemplative, action, and relapse phase of quitting through group discussion.
2. Devise appropriate medication recommendations for these same patients.
3. Model what can be done in real-time, five-to-ten-minute, interactions with a patient to effectively help them quit tobacco use, maintain the quit, or deal with relapse.

This final session is interactive. Attendees will be given several quitting scenarios and patient profiles based on actual patients, beforehand, and asked to fashion a treatment plan for each of these situations prior to attending the session. The actual session will consist of group discussion, leader feedback, and modeling of effective intervention techniques.

Session Resources:
Recording and Slides