We asked Dr. Sadaf Faisal, our director of professional affairs, what are some of the highlights of our new smoking cessation toolkit: Break the Habit: A Pharmacist’s Toolkit for Smoking Cessation Counselling. Here is what she had to say!

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Our interactive tobacco cost calculator is a powerful tool to help your patients understand the financial advantages of quitting smoking. 

While health considerations are certainly a key motivator when it comes to smoking cessation, helping your patients understand the costs and financial advantages of quitting smoking can also play a big role. Our toolkit includes a cost calculator that you can use to help your patients see how quitting aligns with their financial goals. 

• Check out the resource: Tobacco Cost Calculator

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Our Stages of Change resource will help you easily understand one of the foundational ideas of smoking cessation. 

Understanding where individuals are in their smoking cessation journey, from initial contemplation to maintaining a smoke-free life, is essential and will help you provide individualized support at each step. 

• Check out the resource: Stages of Change

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Tailoring your approach for special populations is more complex – and these tools can be a big help. 

Supporting an adolescent, an older adult, a patient with a chronic illness or someone planning to become pregnant comes with additional considerations. We’ve created resources to help you navigate these more complex cases. 

• Check out the resources: Preconception, Pregnancy and Breastfeeding and Adolescents, Older Adults and People with Chronic Illnesses