The MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence's Training and Education Newsletter

December 13, 2022

We hope you enjoy this quarterly newsletter from the Training & Education Program at the MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence. CTI provides education and training on evidence-based tobacco treatment to healthcare and behavioral health professionals in Maine on behalf of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services. Our goal is to improve access to high quality, best practice tobacco treatment and create a network of tobacco treatment specialists across the state.

What's the Research?

Treating Parents for Tobacco Use in the Pediatric Setting

The Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

As many of us know, tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure cause an estimated 480,000 premature deaths annually. One environment that has a great opportunity to deliver tobacco treatment assistance to parents is in a Pediatric office. This study examined implementing a program to treat parents for tobacco use within pediatric offices throughout 5 different states. The 5 study states were North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana.

The objective was to determine if the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure (CEASE) intervention could be implemented and sustained in pediatric offices and test if implementing CEASE led to changes in prevalence of smoking among parents over the range of 2 years.

The CEASE intervention is an intervention designed to facilitate both routine screening in pediatric settings of families for tobacco use and delivery of tobacco use treatment to individuals in screened households who use tobacco.

In this trial, integrating screening and treatment for parental tobacco use in pediatric practices showed both immediate and long-term increases in treatment delivery, a decline in practice-level parental smoking prevalence, and an increase in cotinine confirmed cessation, compared with usual care.

Sustained rates of routinely screening families for household tobacco use, and subsequent delivery of meaningful treatment to parents who smoke in intervention practices demonstrates a true systems level implementation of the intervention.

Ultimately, pediatric practices could reduce the prevalence of tobacco use among US parents and protect children from exposure to tobacco smoke if there were more screening and interventions in place.

Nabi-Burza E, Drehmer JE, Hipple Walters B, et al. Treating Parents for Tobacco Use in the Pediatric Setting: The Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2019;173(10):931–939. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.2639

To read the full article, click here.

Upcoming Trainings

Treating Tobacco Together: Essential Skills Training

Prerequisite: None

Target Audience: All health education and public health professionals

Registration Fee: FREE

Upcoming Training Dates:

January 10, 11, 12, 2022: 3 Day Essential Skills Training

Session 1: 9:00am - 1:10pm EST

Session 2: 9:00am - 11:30am EST

Session 3: 9:00am - 11:20am EST

February 1, 2022: Essential Skills Training Hybrid Version

Pre-Work - 6 Online Courses (Approximately 4 hours)

Live Session: 8:30am - 12:00pm EST

*Requirement for the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice*

6 CME/CEUs Available

Click HERE to Register

Treating Tobacco Together: Intensive Skills Training

Prerequisite: Treating Tobacco Together: Essential Skills Training

Target Audience: All health education and public health professionals

Upcoming Training Dates:

During the week of April 11-14, 2023

In Person Option (location TBD)

Additional information and registration coming soon

*Requirement for the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice*

13.5 CME/CEUs Available

Click HERE to Learn More

Additional Offerings

Look out for our addition to compliment the MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence Training and Education Newsletter!

We're releasing media offerings on a range of tobacco topics each quarter.

Check Out Our Latest Episode!

For this quarter’s soundbite, Ciara Sablock, CTI's Program Management Specialist on the Training and Education team is going to be talking about second and third hand smoke and the dangers associated with both.

We hope you enjoy!

Click HERE to Listen to the Episode

We will be archiving our Newsletters and other media offerings on our CTI Website if you missed them!

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Selected Resource

Going Smoke Free Matters

In Your Home

Did you know that there is no level of safe secondhand smoke exposure? Children and adults who do not smoke are at risk for death and early disease when they are exposed to secondhand smoke.

Some of the diseases in children include lung problems, ear infections and asthma attacks. Adults who are exposed to secondhand smoke can develop stroke, lung cancer and heart disease.

Click here or on the image to access the full document.

For more information about the Training & Education Program, visit:

Tobacco Cessation Training | Center for Tobacco Independence (ctimaine.org)

The MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence (CTI)

Tobacco Treatment Training and Education Program

CTI provides education and training on evidence-based tobacco treatment to healthcare and behavioral health professionals in Maine on behalf of the Maine CDC, DHHS. Our goal is to improve access to high quality, best practice tobacco treatment and create a network of tobacco treatment specialists across the state.