Events

Webinar recordings: GP supervisors - supporting registrars to provide smoking cessation care

Ready or not..what is motivational interviewing? Behaviour change approaches for smoking cessation in general practice.

This 2-part webinar series for GP supervisors focused on supporting registrars to provide smoking cessation care and teaching motivational interviewing

Hosted and facilitated by General Practice Supervision Australia, these webinars focused on motivational interviewing, with tips from Quit Centre's Cessation Advisor Dr Sacha Filia and GP Lead Dr Eileen Cole.

• Part 1 Webinar video
• Part 1 Webinar podcast
• Part 2 Webinar video
  
• Part 2 Webinar podcast

Webinar recording: Navigating vaping reforms

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) hosted a webinar on 26 September 2024 that provided an overview of the upcoming regulatory changes and PSA's roadmap for pharmacists to confidently navigate these reforms.

From 1 October 2024, vaping products with nicotine concentrations of 20 mg/mL or less can be supplied without a prescription to individuals 18 years or over, subject to pharmacist assessment and guidance.

Expert speakers, including Quit Centre's GP Lead Dr Eileen Cole, spoke about what the changes mean in terms of approval pathways, sourcing, dispensing therapeutic vapes and how these changes are to be implemented in practice.

Webinar recording: Clinical Conversation - Smoking Cessation Supports in Pregnancy

Safer Care Victoria presented a clinical conversation exploring smoking cessation supports in pregnancy. Presenters were Dr Eileen Cole and Pharmacist Jennifer Kyi from Quit Centre, as well as Prof Megan Passey from The Daffodil Centre.
Discussion covered effective screening and assessment of nicotine replacement therapy, provision of initial counselling which is culturally safe for Indigenous and Torres Strait women, and an understanding of Quit services.

Watch the recorded webinar

Webinar recording: The New National Tobacco Strategy: How NRT can help

This webinar hosted by RACGP unpacked the implications of the National Tobacco Strategy for GPs, and considers how GPs can engage people who smoke in cessation care, with a focus on using NRT.

1 Hour CPD Approved Education Activity.

Webinar recording: Supporting Smoking Cessation Care in Cardiovascular Settings

World leader in smoking cessation for people with cardiovascular disease Professor Andrew Pipe (Cardiologist) alongside Professor Timothy Kleinig (Neurologist), Professor Garry Jennings (Chief Medical Advisor at National Heart Foundation of Australia), Sheila Jala (Clinical Nurse Consultant - Neurology), Dawn Mcivor (Clinical Nurse Consultant - Cardiology) and Professor David Thomas (Stroke Prevention Advisory Committee member - Stroke Foundation and Professor of Public Health Research - Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin).

Podcast: National Prescribing Service MedicineWise - Quit smoking

Episode 51: Quit smoking. What makes a difference?

Webinar recording: Supporting Smoking Cessation Care in Oncology Settings

World leader in smoking cessation for people with cancer Dr Graham Warren (Radiation Oncologist) alongside Australian leaders in oncology Dr Samantha Bowyer (Medical Oncologist), Dr Christopher Stanley (Respiratory Medicine Specialist), Dr Nia Luxton (Senior Clinician, Physiotherapist), Professor Shalini Vinod (Radiation Oncologist), and Dr Sarah White (Quit Director).