Cigar and Pipe Smoking

Cigar and Pipe Smoking

This continuing education course helps healthcare providers address the problem of cigar and pipe smoking in their patients. It presents the associated negative health effects and other issues that need to be addressed in order to help patients quit smoking these forms of tobacco.
Course Need, Goal, Objectives, and Target Audience

Need: Cigar and pipe smokers have some unique issues for health practitioners to consider when providing tobacco cessation interventions.

Goal: The learner will be knowledgeable about unique issues related to cigar and pipe use that should be considered when providing tobacco cessation interventions.

Objectives: After completing this course you will be able to
  • Describe prevalence, trends, and patterns of use for cigars and pipes
  • Describe the addictive potential of cigar and pipe smoking and appropriate clinical interventions
  • Describe the negative health effects of cigar and pipe smoking
  • Compare cigar and pipe smoking to cigarette smoking in terms of patterns of use, addiction, health effects, and mortality
Audience: Physicians and other healthcare professionals, counselors, substance abuse workers, psychologists, and trainees in these fields. ACCME and NBCC credit are available.
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Course Participation

Obtaining CE credit for participation in this course requires that you are logged in, take the pre-test, view the course, take the post-test, satisfaction survey, and then request credit. To receive CE credit, you must answer at least 70% of the post-test questions correctly. When successful, you will be instructed on how to print out a credit statement/CME certificate for your records. Keep track of the amount of time it takes you to complete this course.Each health professional should claim credit only for the time actually spent in the activity. Unless otherwise noted, credit is available at the cost of $15/credit hour. If there is a noticeable discrepancy between credit time claimed and time spent which can not be resolved, we may void the credit. [DETAILS]

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Continuing education credits are provided by Clinical Tools, Inc. Please review the Accreditation Details for more information. Initial development of this course was supported by a from NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, #R44HL65885

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PendingLast content review: 5/16/05
Last editorial review: 8/1/08
Authors
Karen Mary Rossie, DMD, MS, MACP, PhD
Margaret Judith Brunk, MS
Andrea Margaret Catenaro, BS
Morgan Claire Wickizer, BA
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Disclosure

Clinical Tools, Inc. requires that all authors participating in CME development disclose their financial interest or other relationship with the manufacturers of any commercial products and/or providers of commercial services discussed in this educational presentation and with any commercial supporters of this activity.
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