With the great news that ADHA was awarded a second-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco, efforts have been underway to build on last year’s success of a nationwide initiative by dental hygienists to promote smoking cessation.

To expand ADHA’s activities related to the smoking cessation initiative (SCI), smoking cessation expert Carol Southard, RN, MSN was hired as the SCI project manager. Carol brings to her position at ADHA over 20 years of expertise in smoking cessation interventions. (You can reach her directly at carols@adha.net or 800-243-2342, ext. 220.)

Among the activities targeted for the second year of the grant was a complete update and redesign of the “Ask.Advise.Refer.” Web site (www.askadviserefer.org) featuring additional resources dental hygienists throughout the country can utilize. One of the key elements of the Web site is a tool-kit and an online tutorial for dental hygienists to use to promote smoking cessation activities. Among the many resources available to state SCI liaisons and dental hygiene practitioners through the ADHA initiative are smoking cessation fact sheets, online smoking cessation advice for practitioners, marketing and promotional materials such as posters and brochures, and the new national quitline resource list.



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Learn how to incorporate tobacco cessation interventions into everyday clinical practice and dental hygiene curriculum at Tobacco Cessation: Call to Action for Educators and Clinicians, a workshop presented at ADHA’s 82nd annual session at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas on Thursday, June 23, 2005 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. You will have the opportunity to review the relationship between tobacco use and oral disease, most notably oral cancer and periodontal disease. This workshop will examine current tobacco cessation education within dental hygiene curriculum and the role of tobacco cessation counseling in contemporary dental hygiene practice. Do not miss this unique opportunity to learn about the gold standard practice guidelines for tobacco cessation interventions! Call today for a registration packet: 1-800-243-ADHA. Or access online information about annual session using the link above.