PLAIN LANGUAGE SMOKING CESSATION

A Low/No Literacy Approach

Deborah J. Stefanucci

Urqa@northwestphysicians.com

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• This lecture is one of a series on local public health recruited by Charles J. Vukotich, Jr. of the Allegheny County Health Department (PA), as a scholar in the Northeast Regional Public Health Leadership Institute, Class of 2000. For information contact: dcw01@health.state.ny.us

• Deborah J. Stefanucci is an LPN with 28 years experience in the operating room, who has been Director of UR/QA for Northwest Physicians Associates, PC (NPA) for the last 9 years. In 2002, NPA established a non-profit foundation to bring health information to the community. Ms. Stefanucci has been active in developing tobacco outreach programs for the foundation.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• To understand the key concepts of smoking cessation.

• To understand the basic risks of smoking and the benefits of quitting.

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

• Provide smoking cessation classes for those with no/low literacy that are equivalent to those offered to generally.

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