The Clinical Tobacco Intervention (CTI) Program is a cooperative effort between the Ontario Pharmacists' Association, the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario Dental Association to mobilize and support pharmacists, physicians and dentists to help their patients stop smoking and prevent younger patients from beginning to smoke. Education of the health care professionals forms the cornerstone of the CTI Program.

Multidisciplinary workshops are held in various locations across the province, usually in the evening, include dinner and last about two hours. Support staff are invited to accompany the practitioners and CE credits are provided.

Additional resources provided by CTI include Pharmacist Education Kits, educational materials for patients, Quit Connection Fax Referral Service and the E-learning module Youth and Smoking Cessation: Meeting the Challenges. To access these resources, and for more information, visit the CTI website www.opacti.org.

Some of the topics covered in CTI training include:

  Techniques for brief interventions
  The 5 A's model
  How to motivate smokers to quit
  Preventing and coping with relapse
  Pharmacotherapy options to assist with cessation

 

For more information, please contact us at mail@opatoday.com or
(416) 441-0788.



Funding for this program has been provided, in part, by the Government of Ontario.

 Past Events: CTI Training Program: January 16, 2006
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