WOMEN

Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond: Learn Proven Strategies to Help Your Patients Quit
Based on "Virtual Practicum" model; strategies for implementing optimal and efficient office systems to support smoking cessation counseling and documentation. Offers various learning tools, including interactive case simulations and comprehensive discussions of patient visits, mini-lectures on relevant topics from leading experts, interviews with real patients who have quit, and pertinent links and office resources: http://iml.dartmouth.edu/education/cme/Smoking

Prenatal Smoking Cessation Training
Online course based on the USPHS clinical practice guideline and offered by Health Care Education and Training, Inc: www.hcet.org/training/psc.html

Tobacco CME (Women Patients)
Funded by NHLBI, managed by Clinical Tools, Inc. Offers free online CME courses: General Health Effects of Tobacco in Women, Pregnancy and Smoking, Women and Tobacco - Background, Women and Tobacco - Counseling, Women and Tobacco - General Health Effects, Women and Tobacco - Reproductive Health Effects: www.TobaccoCME.com

Integrated Approach to Prenatal Smoking Cessation Interventions
2.0 hr CE from the Nursing Center website: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, July/August 2001; Clinical Topics: Lifestyle modification / Obstetrics : www.nursingcenter.com/prodev/ce_article.asp?tid=53538

YOUTH

Tobacco CME (Youth Patients)
Funded by NHLBI, managed by Clinical Tools, Inc. Offers free online CME courses: Children and Tobacco - Three Cases, Teens and Tobacco - A Case, Tobacco and Youth - Epidemiology and Marketing, Tobacco and Youth - Health Effects, Tobacco and Youth - Treatment Issues: www.TobaccoCME.com

Help Teens Quit
Series of 5 "Let's Talk" teleconferences sponsored by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  These are free and open to participants from other states, as well.  First call is 3/12/08 and subsequent dates are 4/23/08, 6/17/08, 10/2/08 & 11/6/08: www.paaap.org

OLDER ADULTS

How to Help Older Adults Quit Smoking
1.5 hr CE from The Nursing Center website: The Nurse Practitioner, December 2002; Clinical Topic: Advanced practice nursing: www.nursingcenter.com/prodev/ce_article.asp?tid=289133

Older Adults and Tobacco
Funded by NHLBI, managed by Clinical Tools, Inc.; C available through: www.TobaccoCME.com

OTHER SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Smoking Cessation and Native Americans
Online 8-hour CME from the Center for Native American TeleHealth and TeleEducation of the AIANP (scroll down for course description): http://aianp.uchsc.edu/moodle

Tobacco Cessation in Special Populations
Funded by NCI, managed by Clinical Tools, Inc.; Course available through: www.TobaccoFreePatients.com

Smokeless Tobacco and Cigar and Pipe Smoking
Funded by NHLBI, managed by Clinical Tools, Inc.; both courses available through: www.TobaccoCME.com

Management of High-Risk Tobacco Users: Where Practice Guidelines and Clinical Judgment Meet
1.5 CE credits available for physicians (AMA PRA Category 1), nurses and pharmacists (ACPE credits); registration (free) required: www.medscape.com/viewprogram/8486

Challenges of Treating Tobacco Users in High-Risk Populations
1.0 CE credit available for physicians (AMA PRA Category 1), nurses and pharmacists (ACPE credits); registration (free) required: www.medscape.com/viewprogram/8132

Inpatient Smoking Cessation Counseling May Reduce Mortality After Myocardial Infarction
Up to 0.25 AMA PRA category 1 continuing physician education credits; registration (free) required: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/500415