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Tobacco Use and Recovery Among
Individuals with Mental Illness or Addiction
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the high rates of tobacco use in individuals with behavioral health concerns.
- Describe the unique consequences of tobacco use in individuals with behavioral health concerns
- Review Methods for assessing tobacco use.
- Describe FDA approved aids for the treatment of tobacco use disorder.
- Describe general counseling approaches for the treatment of tobacco use disorder.
- Describe motivational interviewing approaches for the treatment of tobacco use disorder.
Presented By:
Dr. Marc Steinberg
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Dr. Marc Steinberg is a clinical psychologist and the director of the Tobacco Research & Intervention lab. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Director of the Doctoral Psychology Internship program at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. His research focuses on tobacco use and dependence, including tobacco dependence treatment development, tobacco use in smokers with psychiatric comorbidity, the relationship between smoking and task persistence/distress tolerance, and motivational interviewing as an approach to encourage smokers to make a quit attempt. As a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, he also trains clinicians in the use of motivational interviewing.
Dr. Steinberg is active in the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) where he serves on its Advisory Committee. He is a Deputy Editor for the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research. The American Lung Association has hosted Dr. Steinberg numerous times to provide training in Minnesota.
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Tobacco refers specifically to the use of manufactured, commercial tobacco products, and not to the sacred, medicinal and traditional use of tobacco by American Indians and other groups.
