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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:
Despite overall declining trends in recent national smoking rates, youth and other populations of individuals continue to engage in alternative tobacco-product use. Dual and poly-tobacco use can present increased risks to mortality and are a common phenomenon for individuals both new to tobacco use, and who have a pre-established history of tobacco use and are motivated to change. Dual use is not an effective way to safeguard health outcomes.
The presenters, Rahma Iqbal and Chris Jury from NW ESD 189, will briefly discuss the different current strategies for the disposal of vape devices in regional schools. They will also look at several options that represent cost savings and/or more environmentally friendly disposal methods and facilitate conversation/ Q and A about what professionals are seeing, state-wide. Their hope is to identify a path forward that balances responsible disposal, costs and simplicity.
Hospitalizations are stressful, and nicotine withdrawal symptoms can negatively impact a person's experience. Nevertheless, hospitalizations present a unique opportunity for patients to examine their tobacco use and the implications it has on their health.
