NAQC Newsroom: Tobacco Control

May 31 Webinar: Always a Priority: Helping Smokers with Mental Health Conditions Quit!

Thursday, May 12, 2016  
Posted by: Natalia Gromov

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and the CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) campaign are pleased to invite you to the free webinar, “Always a Priority: Helping Smokers with Mental Health Conditions Quit” on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at 1:00pm EDT (90 minutes). Webinar objectives are:

  • Review epidemiology of tobacco use among individuals with a mental illness or addiction in order to raise awareness
  • Discuss the variety of consequences experienced by a tobacco user in addition to medical or health consequences and revise how these impact recovery from a mental illness or addiction
  • Interpret personal narrative recovery stories as a way to disseminate  information to an at risk community and increase awareness and understanding in a peer to peer way.

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