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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2014 through Summer 2017
- Course Number:
- AD 106
- Course Title:
- Smoking Cessation
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 10
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
At the conclusion of this course the student will be able to:
1. Apply knowledge of nicotine addiction to deliver accurate information to individuals and/or groups.
2. Use an understanding of evidenced based smoking cessation strategies and resources to serve as a referral source for individuals who are addicted to nicotine.
Course Activities and Design
This is primarily a lecture course. Students will be asked to create a treatment proposal for a specific “client” provided via a case study by the instructor.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
1. An assessment process that will extract information from lectures, readings and other multimedia presentations via a test
of a basic understanding of the targeted concepts.
2. A project that requires the student to synthesize the course material into an appropriate referral for a fictional nicotine addicted subject.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
1) History of Nicotine Use
2) Health Consequences
3) Epidemiological Data
4) Vulnerable Populations
5) Stages of Change
6) Motivational Interviewing
7) Obstacles and Myths about Smoking Cessation
8) Evidenced Based Approaches to Smoking Cessation
9) Medications and Smoking Cessation
10) Smoking Cessation and the 12 Step Community.
11) Resources for Smoking Cessation