Addressing Tobacco Dependence Video

1. Addressing Tobacco
Dependence
Treatment Strategies for
Tobacco-Free Recovery
- and -
Prescribing Cessation
Medications
Jill M. Williams, MD

2. Addressing tobacco addiction
concurrently with other
addiction treatment increases
sobriety rates up to 20%.

3. Tobacco Treatment
Strategies
• Epidemiology of Tobacco Use
• Behavioral Health Comorbidity
• Working with Low Motivated
Smokers
• Consumer Panel
• Assessment & Approaches
• Lunch Provided!

4. SMOKERS WHO TRY TO QUIT
Can double or triple their
chances by getting counseling,
medicine, or both.

5. Prescribing Cessation
Medications
• Pharmacology of nicotine
replacement products (NRT)
• FDA approved medications
• Dosing and side effects
• Research studies in behavioral
health populations

6. Training costs have been
generously underwritten by:

7. Professor of Psychiatry
Rutgers - Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School
Focus: addressing tobacco
dependence in adults living
with mental illness or
addiction
• Co-founded the CHOICES Program, winning
numerous awards for innovative programming!
• Conducted clinical trials to improve cessation rates
among individuals living with serious mental
illnesses.

8. REGISTER TODAY
www.namiKansas.org
Addressing Tobacco
Dependence
Treatment Strategies for Tobacco-Free Recovery
- and -
Prescribing Cessation Medications