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New Year, New Conversations: Empowering Tobacco Treatment Specialists to Save More Lives in 2026

Tuesday, December 16, 2025  
Posted by: Natalia Gromov

Start the new year by turning resolutions into action with our FREE, one-hour online accredited course for Tobacco Treatment Specialists, designed to help you support clients in pursuing lung cancer screening and a smoke-free life. Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death, and Tobacco Treatment Specialists are uniquely positioned to connect people with evidence-based screening and cessation support that can change outcomes in 2026 and beyond.

Project ENGAGE’s course, “Conversations that Save Lives: How Tobacco Treatment Specialists Can Engage Clients in a Discussion about Lung Cancer Screening” , is approved by the Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs for 1 continuing education contact hour and offers a certificate of completion. Join a growing community of providers who have already completed the training and gain practical tools to lead confident, client-centered conversations about screening and quitting.

Register now to make this course part of your professional new year goals and help turn conversations into early detection and lives saved. Please promote the course through your communication channels using the media kit at https://www.naquitline.org/engage.

This course was funded through a Patient- Centered Outcomes Research Institute® (PCORI®) Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award (EADI-26839). The views, statements, opinions presented in this course are solely the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of PCORI®.