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16/02/2026 – Smoking Cessation

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Date: 16/02/2026

Start Time: 13:00

Completion Time: 1 Hour

Venue: Online via zoom

Speakers: Naomi Thompson

Course Description

Join us for an insightful teaching session on ‘Smoking Cessation’ facilitated by Naomi Thompson from Cancer Focus NI. In this one-hour session, gain invaluable knowledge on breaking the chain of nicotine addiction, understanding the health impacts, and learning about effective techniques for smoking cessation. This session targets dental professionals who are keen on enhancing their understanding and skills to support their patients towards a smoke-free lifestyle. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to contribute to public health, happening from 13:00 – 14:00.

Course Aims

  • To help health professionals increase their effectiveness in providing brief opportunistic support to patients/ clients in their care who want to stop smoking.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course participants will have:

  • An awareness of the current prevalence of smoking in Northern Ireland and the U.K.
  • Explored the wide-ranging effects of smoking on the body
  • An informed understanding of the complex nature of tobacco use
  • Explored the reasons why people start to smoke and why they want to stop
  • Examined the stages of change approach by Prochaska and DiClemente and applied it for use in changing smoking behaviour
  • Looked at VBA and Brief Intervention to assess individuals to provide appropriate guidance and support for their stage of stopping smoking
  • An awareness of the current aids to stop smoking, and other nicotine containing products e.g. ecigs Information about further sources of support available

Course Learning Content

This training session is intended to create and understanding of stop smoking advice, effective communication with smokers, effective stop smoking medications and local support services.

GDC Development Outcomes

  • A

Resources

Dietary Requirements

Please advise the Dental Continuing Education Team dentalcourses.nimdta@hscni.net if you have any dietary requirements.

 

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