How to Help People Quit Educational Course

This free, one-hour online course is designed to help participants become navigators of the tobacco cessation process. Continuing education credit available.

The American Lung Association’s How To Help People Quit training is a free, one-hour online course that includes four interactive learning modules designed to further enhance understanding of the Lung Association’s core beliefs about tobacco cessation, as well as understanding behavior changes, interventions and treatment needed to help people quit for good.

Participants will enhance their skill set in:

  • Recognizing the types of resistance to change
  • Conducting brief interventions
  • Utilizing principles of Motivational Interviewing to resolve uncertainty
  • Identify FDA-approved medications to help individuals break tobacco dependency
  • Connect quitters with American Lung Association’s tobacco cessation resources for both youth and adults

Continuing Education Credit

This program is provided by the American Lung Association and is designed to provide continuing education for tobacco treatment providers. It is accredited by the Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs to award 1 continuing education contact hours for tobacco treatment providers who successfully complete the program.

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Page last updated: November 13, 2024

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