Nicotine Addiction and Smoking Cessation

Smoking continues to be a major public health concern. Smoking cessation programs need to have a multidisciplinary approach. Pharmacologic aids for smoking cessation are helpful and must be considered as part of the combined treatment plan that includes behavioral interventions. Learn strategies to encourage smoking cessation in your patients and support them throughout their cessation journey with Dr. Javier Pérez-Fernández.

Original Release Date: April 2019
Renew Date: September 2023

Target Audience

Primary Care Physicians, Internal Medicine Physicians, Ob/Gyns and Physician Assistants.

Learning Objectives

  • Review the prevalence of smoking nationally and locally.
  • Discuss the addictive properties of nicotine and associated risks of cigarettes, including e-cigarettes.
  • Explain current evidence-based data supporting smoking cessation behaviors in all patients.
  • Implement strategies to effectively motivate smoking cessation behaviors.
  • Examine pharmacologic aids available as part of smoking cessation programs.
  • Review Baptist Health smoking cessation orders and procedures.
Additional information
Bibliography: 
  • Reitsma, M. B., Fullman, N., Ng, M., Salama, J. S., Abajobir, A., Abate, K. H., ... & Adebiyi, A. O. (2017). Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 389(10082), 1885-1906.
  • Jarvis, M. J. (2004). Why people smoke. Bmj, 328(7434), 277-279.
  • Benowitz, N. L. (2010). Nicotine addiction. New England Journal of Medicine, 362(24), 2295-2303.
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.75 ABIM MOC II
  • 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.75 General certificate of attendance
Course opens: 
04/01/2022
Course expires: 
03/31/2025
Cost:
$9.95

Javier Pérez-Fernández, M.D., FCCM, FCCP
Medical Director, Critical Care Services, Baptist Hospital of Miami
Medical Director, Pulmonary Services, West Kendall Baptist Hospital
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University
South Florida Pulmonary and Critical Care, LLC

Marie Vital Acle, MPH, MCHES
Manager, CME Programs and Online Learning
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Florida

Javier Pérez-Fernández, M.D., faculty for this educational activity, has a speaker role with Pfizer, La Jolla Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, Boehringer Ingelheim, Sunovion, Mallinckrodt and Astra-Zeneca and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage. 

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual has been mitigated.

Marie Vital Acle, MPH, MCHES, faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose. 

J. Arturo Fridman, M.D., conference director for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose. 

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*. 

*Ineligible companies -- Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
              
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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NOTE: Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points will be automatically reported to the ABIM. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.

Through an agreement between the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, medical practitioners participating in the Royal College MOC Program may record completion of accredited activities registered under the ACCME’s “CME in Support of MOC” program in Section 3 of the Royal College’s MOC Program.

 

Available Credit

  • 0.75 ABIM MOC II
  • 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.75 General certificate of attendance

Price

Cost:
$9.95
Please login or register for a Baptist Health CME account to take this course.

NOTE: Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points will be automatically reported to the ABIM. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.

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