Tobacco Harm Reduction

This course educates physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other healthcare workers about far less hazardous products that deliver nicotine/tobacco satisfaction together with a small fraction of the health risks of smoking. This course does not promote any medical intervention. Rather, it educates health professionals so that they are in a better position to offer lifestyle options, especially to smokers unable or unwilling to quit nicotine/tobacco entirely.

About This Course: 

The full scope of tobacco use and related risks to health, especially with regard to the differences between combusted and smoke-free forms of nicotine/tobacco use, are misunderstood by the millions of the nation’s smokers e-cigarette users and smokeless tobacco users, their friends and families, and the health professionals who serve them.  This has been documented in several national surveys.

 If you are one of these health professionals, then you have shared the trials and tribulations of inveterate smokers and the calamitous consequences they face.

 But a 2007 report by the British Royal College of Physicians was hopeful, “…that smokers smoke predominantly for nicotine, that nicotine itself is not especially hazardous, and that if nicotine could be provided in a form that is acceptable and effective as a cigarette substitute, millions of lives could be saved….”

 

This Course will Address the Following Topics:

Nicotine: Correcting Misperceptions

Smoking and Vaping in the U.S.

Risks of Smokeless Tobacco Use and Cigar Smoking Explained

Risks of E-Cigarettes and Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco Explained

Tobacco Harm Reduction Can Work: Evidence From Around the World


Target Audience
Health Care Providers (physicians, PAs, MAs), Dentists, Nurses (APRN, RN, LPN), and Other Clinicians

Accreditation Statement
The University of Louisville School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement
The University of Louisville School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses - This program has been approved by the Kentucky Board of Nursing for 8.4 continuing education credits through University of Louisville Hospital, provider number 4-0068-12-24-1406. The Kentucky Board of Nursing approval of an individual nursing education provider does not constitute endorsement of program content. Completion criteria to obtain CE's: Complete chosen lessons and complete the evaluations; total number of CE's designated by total number of lessons completed.


Hardware & Software Requirements
High speed internet connection
Browser: Google Chrome is recommended

Disclosures
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the Office of Professional and Educational Development, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its accredited educational activities. All Planners, faculty, reviewers, and other persons that affected the content of this CME activity were required to submit a financial disclosure form from which relevant conflicts of interest were determined. If any relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies were disclosed, the materials each of them prepared for this program (or influenced) were peer-reviewed and determined to be without ineligible company bias, were considered fair and balanced in terms of therapeutic options, and presented evidence-based content. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated prior to this activity.

Course Director/Coordinator
Dr. Brad Rodu, D.D.S

Planning Committee and Faculty

Dr. Donald Miller, MD, Ph.D.

David Sweanor, JD


Senior Instructional Designer

Ashley Shelton, Ph.D.


The course director, coordinator, planning committee members, and faculty members have nothing to disclose for this CME activity.

Learner Consent Statement
Names or contact information of learners will not be shared with any ineligible company or its agents without the explicit consent of the individual learner.

Original Release & Termination Dates
Medium or combination of media used: Online enduring material activity
Method of Physician Participation: Online
Estimated time to complete the educational activity: 7 hours total
Course Originally Released on: 10/21/2024
Course Termination Date: 10/21/2026


Additional Services
If you need accommodations due to a disability, or for an alternative form of course materials, please email  The Office of Professional and Educational Development fully complies with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof.

Provider Contact Information
For questions about accreditation or the course content, please e-mail us at 

Contact Information
If you need technical support or are interested in this content without CE credits, please email

Privacy Policy
The University of Louisville's Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development office respects your privacy. Personal information collected from participants of our medical educational activities will not, unless required by law, be shared with any third party. The primary reason we collect your personal information is for accountability and documentation of your continuing education activities in compliance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) regulations. We do not distribute unsolicited e-mails, nor, unless required by law, do we share the names of our subscribers with any third party.

Copyright
The University of Louisville has obtained permission to use the content in this educational activity.

Commercial Support
No commercial support was received or used to fund this online course.

Registration Fees
This course is provided at no cost to participants.

Course Instructions
This course consists of five modules each offering CE credit hour(s). During the course you will participate in an interactive learning lesson(s). **Notice** If you are accessing the UofL CME website for the first time you will create two accounts: (1) CME Tracker which keeps track of your CE Units; and(2) Reach 360, our online learning platform, which houses our online CE courses. Please use the same email address for each separate account. Please follow the directions below:

  1. Select "Click Here" below and our CE credit landing page (Tracker) will open to register for this course. IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A TRACKER ACCOUNT, sign in and follow the registration steps. IF YOU ARE NEW TO TRACKER AND DO NOT YET HAVE AN ACCOUNT, you will have to create a user profile in Tracker before you are able to move forward.
  2. Once you have registered for the course on Tracker, a confirmation page will appear with a button that says LAUNCH CONTENT. Additionally once registered, you will receive a confirmation email from Tracker with the same link to the content. It could take up to 30 minutes to receive the email. 
  3. On the confirmation page, click the button that says LAUNCH CONTENT, which will take you to our online learning platform, Reach 360. IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A REACH 360 ACCOUNT, enter your email address and proceed to sign in. IF YOU ARE NEW TO REACH 360 AND DO NOT YET HAVE AN ACCOUNT, you will have to register and create a user profile in REACH 360 before you are able to move forward. THIS ACCOUNT/LOGIN IS SEPARATE FROM YOUR TRACKER ACCOUNT, BUT YOU SHOULD USE THE SAME EMAIL. 
  • On the landing page for Reach 360, you will be prompted to enter your email address. You will then receive a confirmation email from Reach 360 to complete your registration. Enter in all required information to create an account and receive access to the modules. 
  • You may complete as many modules as you like. Modules are in a natural order, but you are not required to complete them in that order. Each module has its own CE credits attached to it. IMPORTANT: You will only have access to the course for thirty days. 


TO BEGIN THE COURSE   CLICK HERE