…there will be another offering of the QUIT smoking workshop

Earlier this month, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced that community pharmacists who complete an approved training program will be reimbursed for providing smoking cessation support to Ontario Drug Benefit recipients. This is an important step forward for the health of Ontarians, and yet another endorsement of the value of our profession as [...]

“The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has announced that, effective September 1, 2011, community pharmacists will be funded by the Ontario Government for their expertise in providing a smoking cessation program to Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) recipients. Pharmacists must complete a Ministry approved smoking cessation training program to be eligible for this funding. [...]

The research from the fall 2010 issue of CPhA’s Translator on smoking cessation was highlighted in the February 2011 issue of Pharmacy Today, the official publication of the American Pharmacists Association. The first study highlighted showed the value of pharmacist intervention in smoking cessation—patients in an intervention group participated in three face to face group [...]

Way to go CPhA for putting this together and to all those pharmacists who have spent countless hours getting out there to try and prove our worth!!! http://www.pharmacists.ca/content/hcp/Resource_Centre/Pharmacy_Practice_Research/pdf/Translator_Fall_2010_Vol4_Issue4_Eng.pdf

In this edition: “The Latest”  Hookah and what to say when asked by your patients,  “Review” The 5A approach “What Our Patients See Out There” and an invitation to “Ask Questions and Tell About Your Success Stories”. THE LATEST Hookah is a waterpipe used for smoking tobacco.  It is flavored with many things including chocolate, molasses, mint,  [...]