Butt Out: Tobacco Use Prevention

Audience: Health Practitioners such as; tobacco training specialist, medical staff, peer supporters, advocates for tobacco-free living, policy-makers and others that provide direct health services in treatment, quitting tobacco use dependence (cessation) held in a community-based, hospital, health clinic and in a workforce setting.

Key Points: To achieve health equity, prevent and/or reduce tobacco related disparities, and improve health outcomes especially among low-socioeconomic status African American men, it is important to educate targeted population to indicators as related to socioeconomic inequities in healthcare.

Individual behavior plays a leading role in health outcomes. It is of essence to incorporate a holistic-based, comprehensive client-centered cessation training program that integrates: best practices in treatment, quitting tobacco use dependence; personalized quit/life plan; health screenings; individual and/or group services, coaching and healthy lifestyle and life course trainings. This agenda should further allow an opportunity for an option in treatment plans to include conventional and/or non-conventional strategies to aim to achieve and maintain healthy behaviors.

Educational Experience:

The audience will learn key points from a power-point presentation, hand-outs and/or poster presentation note cards and also by visiting the “Butt Out web-site.

 Benefits: As a cessation strategy, audience will learn healthy lifestyle (stress management, physical activity, routine screening and healthy nutrition) interventions to assist clients in adopting healthy behaviors.

 Raise awareness to current, available and state-of-the art non-conventional therapies available for use in tobacco cessation services.