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December 2022 |Let's talk about smoking Smokefree Healthcare in Mental Health Services

Mental health alcohol and other drug (MHAOD) services are well positioned to provide smoking cessation care to people experiencing mental illness however, the delivery of routine evidence-based care has not been easily achieved. This webinar will describe the practice change undertaken in Queensland to implement routine smoking cessation care across Queensland public adult MHAOD services and the partnership developed with Quitline Queensland to provide an intensive Quit program. The presentation will provide statewide outcomes, offer reflections on strengths and challenges, and provide a brief introduction to future initiatives.

Presenter: Sally Plever, is a Psychologist. She currently co-manages the Queensland Health Mental Health Clinical Collaborative (Qld MHCC), a statewide initiative for clinical service improvement in adult mental health, alcohol and other drug services

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November 2022 | Escape the Vape: Supporting Adolescents and Young Adults Quit Vapes

The presentation will focus on clinical engagement supporting adolescents quit vapes, including assessment and management of nicotine dependence using the 5As brief intervention framework.

Presenters: Dr Bronwyn Milne and Mary Wahhab from The Children's Hospital Westmead.

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For resources for clinicians working with adolescents, click here

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August 2022 | What's in a vape: Implications for the regulation of electronic cigarettes in Australia

Australian regulation of electronic cigarettes and the scheduling of nicotine for use in these devices has recently changed (October 2021). Jody's research involves the examination of the content and toxicity of electronic cigarette liquids and aerosols.

Presenter: Dr Jody Moller (Morgan), is a lab-based toxicology researcher whose research interests sit at the intersection of analytical chemistry and public health with a focus on harm reduction methods. Her current research is focused on electronic cigarettes, cannabis and pill-testing, with particular emphasis on identification and quantification of chemical constituents in samples available to Australian consumers.

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June 2022 | Indigenous excellence in reducing smoking prevalence

Presenter: Dr Raglan Maddox’s (Modewa Clan, Papua New Guinea) program of research has focused on Indigenous tobacco.

There have been significant declines reducing tobacco use. In 2018–19, 40.2% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults were smoking daily. This reflects a 9.8% absolute decrease in prevalence since 2004–05 (50.0%) and representing almost 50,000 fewer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers than if prevalence remained unchanged. What lessons can we take from Indigenous tobacco control since 2004-05 and where to from here?

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May 2022 | Smoke in clinician's eyes - missing foetal nicotine exposure

Presenter: Angela Ratsch is a registered nurse and midwife with a particular interest in the neonatal outcomes from exposure to tobacco and nicotine pre-conceptionally and during gestation

In Australia, the maternal use of cigarettes is recorded twice across the nine months of pregnancy, however the maternal use of NRT and/or other cigarette and nicotine alternatives such as e-cigarettes, heat-not-burn tobacco, nicotine spray, mist, lozenges, gum and patches, hookahs, and chewed tobacco products is not collected. In addition, the paternal and house-hold use of tobacco and nicotine products is not recorded, thus maternal second-hand tobacco and nicotine exposure is not captured. This knowledge vacuum results in maternal and foetal tobacco and nicotine exposure misclassification and ramifications in the estimation of adverse maternal, paternal, foetal and neonatal outcomes from tobacco and nicotine exposure.

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April 2022 | 5 risk free behavioural strategies to manage cravings quickly

Presenter: James McLennan, State-Wide Smoking Cessation Training Co-ordinator, Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
Do you have clients and patients struggling when they experience cravings? Are you to finding it hard to offer practical, realistic strategies that work when cravings arise?
Here we inform of:

Five strategies that are risk free, cheap or cost free
Strategies that are easy to learn and apply yet grounded in science
Strategies that you can easily teach even if you are time-limited

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March 2022 | An update on the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) guidance on the role of Nicotine Vaping Products in smoking cessation

Presenter: Professor Nick Zwar, Bond University and Chair of Expert Advisory Group for the publication An update on the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) guidance for smoking cessation.

This presentation will critique new changes to the regulation of nicotine as per new rescheduling of nicotine e-liquids and outline revised recommendations and practice points.

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