QUIT Smoking Cessation Program
QUIT: Quit Using and Inhaling Tobacco
What's New?
CPhA has partnered with the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy to offer one or more QUIT Workshops for UW Pharmacy students in January 2012. Potential dates are:
- Tuesday, January 17 AND Thursday, January 19, 2012 (two evenings)
OR
- Sunday, January 29 (full day workshop)
For more information or to register, contact gsadler@uwaterloo.ca.
Are you ready to help your patients stop smoking?
The time has never been better to ramp up the smoking cessation services you provide to your patients. Across Canada, provinces are enhancing pharmacists’ scopes of practice, offering reimbursement for professional services and even providing free smoking cessation products to patients.
You’ll be ready with QUIT!
Whether you need a refresher on nicotine replacement therapies and other smoking cessation aids, or want to perfect your patient care skills in smoking cessation counselling and care planning, CPhA’s Quit Using and Inhaling Tobacco (QUIT) program will enhance your ability to provide smoking cessation services.
The QUIT program includes a 5.0 (online) or 6.0 (live) CEU continuing education course and a variety of tools and resources for your practice.
CPhA’s QUIT program has fundamentally changed how I view every single patient I see, and helped me truly understand what pharmacists can achieve in improving patient outcomes. [Our province] recently started compensating for the provision of medication reviews, which means I was fully prepared to begin offering this professional service in my pharmacy as soon as the agreement was announced. For some pharmacists, the QUIT training is their first experience in how to deliver a professional pharmacy service.
— QUIT Graduate
Reimbursement Opportunities
ONTARIO PHARMACISTS
The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has announced that, effective September 1, 2011, community pharmacists will be funded by the Ontario Government for their expertise in providing a smoking cessation program to Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) recipients. Pharmacists must complete a Ministry approved smoking cessation training program to be eligible for this funding. CPhA's QUIT continuing education program has been recognized as an approved program. QUIT is also approved by Green Shield.
SASKATCHEWAN PHARMACISTS
CPhA and the Pharmacists’ Association of Saskatchewan (PAS) are pleased to provide Saskatchewan pharmacists participating in PACT (Partnership to Assist with Cessation of Tobacco) with access to the QUIT online training. For more information, visit www.makeapact.ca.
For additional information, contact us at:
quit@pharmacists.ca or
Tel: (613) 523-7877 or 1-800-917-9489
Fax: (613) 523-0445
