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Tailored Services from UW-CTRI Outreach Specialists

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UW-CTRI Outreach professionals train healthcare providers on effective strategies to help people quit smoking...   ...these providers then help patients break free from tobacco dependence

UW-CTRI Outreach professionals in your area offer:

  • On-site training to help all members of the healthcare team deliver brief, successful interventions with smokers. Free training for CME credit, either face-to-face or online.
  • Evidence-based guidance on treating tobacco use in your practice, including cost effectiveness data and emerging research on best practices.
  • Guides and materials that make interventions effective and easy to implement in a busy clinic, including clinician and patient teaching materials.
  • Practice-specific strategies that have worked at other sites. We will work with you to adapt proven methods to your unique setting.
  • A Fax to Quit program at your site, ensuring that patients can access free, telephone-based smoking cessation counseling and that you receive follow-up information on your patients who make a quit attempt.

To contact the Outreach Specialist in your area, click here.

Materials

Training and Technical Assistance Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line
Education Information by Profession Case for Tobacco Treatment
How Other Providers Treat Tobacco Use Clinical Practice Guideline

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