Overall Tobacco Control
 
The Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC) recently released Tobacco 101: A comprehensive training guide on tobacco control basics. The Tobacco 101 CD ROM is a comprehensive training guide that provides the trainer with an easy-to-use curriculum. Tobacco 101 is a 14-hour learning experience designed to educate professionals new to tobacco control on the fundamentals of tobacco and tobacco prevention and control. The CD includes an introduction to training teams, instructions for creating a learning environment, a course overview curriculum learning objectives, PowerPoint slides for presentation, handouts, a resource guide, video clips, and other tools necessary to implement the training program. To order the CD ROM please go to: http://www.ttac.org/products/index.html.

Certified Tobacco Dependence Treatment Specialist (TTS) Training
The Tobacco Dependence Program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Public Health, offers an intensive 5-Day Core TTS Training for health professionals who want to provide effective tobacco dependence treatment for their patients. This training is based on the US Public Health Service Guidelines for Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence and will provide health professionals with a basic understanding of Tobacco Dependence as well as the latest evidence-based treatment methods. Participants will learn how to assess nicotine dependence, conduct treatment planning and deliver face-to-face treatment, including counseling and the use of medications.

For more information and registration, please go to: www.tobaccoprogram.org

For general questions regarding this training and registration, please contact Joan Maurer at 732-235-8212 or joan.maurer@umdnj.edu.

Cessation
 
The Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has developed an online Cessation Resource Center. The Resource Center provides materials and information on topics such as systematic health care change, community programming, business resources, funding opportunities, quit lines, and evaluation methods to support cessation. All information can be accessed at: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/CRC.htm.

The Wyoming Tobacco Free Community Program Managers have developed a toolkit designed to assist with promoting “Through With Chew Week” and the “Great American Spit Out” campaign. The “Through With Chew Week” was launched in an effort to make spit, smokeless, snuff or chewing tobacco less popular. For more information please visit:
http://www.throughwithchew.com/twc/default.asp.

Secondhand Smoke
 
The Tobacco Control Legal Consortium’s monthly Legal Update is a short, user-friendly bulletin that provides information on key legal developments affecting the tobacco control community. The consortium is a national network of legal resource centers working with national advocacy groups and others to help advocates promote policy change. To view the Legal Update go to www.tclconline.org.

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