A Comprehensive Approach to Teaching Smoking-cessation Strategies

Tobacco Cessation Counseling Training with Standardized Patients

“…I t is evident that health care professionals should provide tobacco cessation counseling (TCC) to their patients and families. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] The U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (TTUD) recommends that cessation counseling be provided to all tobacco users. This recommendation is considered to be the standard of care.…”

“…Assessment of health care provider implementation of TCC indicates that effective training programs are needed to assist professionals in teaching and learning effective strategies like the Five As and Five Rs. [4][5][6][9][10][11]13,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]26,27,[29][30][31][32][34][35][36][37][38][39] The effectiveness of using standardized patients (SP) to train professionals in TCC is well documented. 6,29,31,35,39,40 SPs are actor/educators trained to portray patients in realistic clinical scenarios.…”