Comprehensive Smoking Cessation Education for the Pharmacist

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The Colorado State Board of Pharmacy Approved “Statewide Protocol for Dispensing Tobacco Cessation Products” was approved and in effect as of March 2017. The Protocol was a direct result of Colorado Senate Bill 16-135, which created the infrastructure for the Colorado Boards of Pharmacy, Medicine, and Nursing to work collaboratively with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to create statewide protocols to address public health needs. The smoking cessation protocol was one of two such statewide protocols that were initially approved in Colorado. We are amongst a small handful of states that offer similar smoking cessation services, but Colorado’s protocol is indeed one of the most comprehensive.

The comprehensive training program “Comprehensive Smoking Cessation Education for the Colorado Pharmacist” and all supporting materials were developed in Colorado via a collaborative group of clinical experts and dedicated stakeholders in the pharmacy profession. We are honored to partner with Oregon State University to offer this training program that allows Colorado pharmacists to meet the requirements necessary to provide smoking cessation care to eligible adults in our state.

This training program will provide you the educational resources to safely prescribe smoking cessation therapies. It includes background information (prevalence, burden of tobacco use, addiction and intervention strategies), comprehensive review of medication therapies (pharmacology, clinical approaches to treatment options, and crucial counseling points), practical and business considerations, and finally, Colorado-specific Protocol information to apply to your practice.

Additional materials, including self-screening questionnaires, standard procedures algorithm, visit summary documents, the full clinical guidelines, and many other useful resources are available on the Colorado State Board of Pharmacy website: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dora/Pharmacy_Protocols

For additional questions, please contact: [email protected]

The CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education (CPE). Pharmacists will earn 3 contact hours (0.3 CEUs). In order to received ACPE credit participants must attend the entire program. Partial credit will not be awarded. To earn credit, participants must complete the online program evaluations posted on [email protected]. Once evaluations are completed, CPE will be uploaded to CPE monitor within 2 days.