Implementing social support strategies into cessation treatment

Social supports (e.g., family, friends) can be a tremendous help or hindrance in a client’s/patient’s tobacco cessation journey. This session will focus on barriers, facilitators, and effective strategies in engaging social supports in tobacco cessation treatment to improve clients’/patients’ success in cutting down or quitting tobacco.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify types of social supports in tobacco use cessation treatment.
2. Identify social supports as barriers and facilitators of tobacco cessation.
3. Learn and practice strategies to effectively engage social supports in clients’/patients’ treatment plans.
4. Recognize and overcome system-level barriers to engaging social supports in tobacco cessation treatment.

Presented by Jeremy FInazzo, LCSWA LCASA, and Susan Trout, LCSW, MSPH, NCTTP, UNC Tobacco Treatment Program