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How to Become a Certified
Quit Smart Stop-Smoking Leader

Quit Smart Leader-Certification Seminars are offered at various locations throughout the United States. There is also a Home-Study option for those who can not make it to a seminar (involves watching 5 hours of DVD or VHS video of a live seminar and reviewing the Leader Manual). The seminars are presented by Dr. Robert Shipley, director of the Duke University Medical Center's Stop Smoking Clinic, who has trained more than 2000 health professionals as Certified Quit Smart leaders.

The day-long (usually 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM) seminar includes lectures, slides, discussion, audio and video demonstrations, to show you how to implement and promote your own
Quit Smart Stop Smoking Treatment System. You will learn how to treat individual smokers and conduct classes for up to 20 people. Stop smoking classes may be conducted for members of the community or on-the-job or for other organizations. During the certification seminar, you will learn how to:

  • Assess nicotine addiction
  • Teach stop smoking coping skills
  • Help ex-smokers foster a non-smoking self-image
  • Oversee a nicotine-weaning program
  • Know when and how to recommend various quit smoking medications
  • Introduce a safe and effective form of hypnosis (using a CD)
  • Use a simple letter to increase social support for new ex-smokers
  • Teach relapse prevention and recovery strategies
  • Promote your Quit Smart stop smoking program


Quit Smart Seminar Agenda

8:30 p

Overview of schedule; Facts about smoking; Treatment considerations

9:30 p

QuitSmart Session 1: Preparing to Quit Smoking
Addiction assessment; Nicotine fading; Social support; demonstration of Quit Smart Stop Smoking Session 1 (video)

10:30s0

Break

10:45sp

QuitSmart Session 2: Quitting Smoking.
Hypnosis; Withdrawal symptom management; Stop-smoking medications; Cognitive-behavioral treatments

12:00s

Lunch (on your own)

1:00sp

Demonstration of Quit Smart Stop Smoking Session 2 (videotape)

2:00sp

QuitSmart Session 3: Maintenance.
Relapse prevention; Lifestyle balance; Weight control

2:30sp

Break

2:45sp

Demonstration of Quit Smart Stop Smoking Session 3 (video)

3:00sp

Group-treatment protocol (with video demonstration)

4:00p

How to promote your QuitSmart stop smoking program

4:30p

Complete feedback form and ajourn

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Feedback on Past Seminars

More than 90 percent of seminar participants rated it "excellent."

"I was very impressed by the quality and depth
of the Quit Smart Leader Seminar. "
Harry Klinefelter III, Ph.D.
Fort Worth, Texas

"The seminar was very complete."
Dr. Charles D. Williams, Jr.
Charlotte, North Carolina

blank.gif (154 bytesTo assist certified facilitators, Robert H. Shipley has written the Quit Smart Leader Manual: Scientific Foundations and Implementation Guidelines (2008), which is available to certified facilitators for $75. It contains 16 chapters that discuss nicotine fading, nicotine replacement medications, other medications such as Chantix and Zyban, hypnosis, withdrawal symptoms, stress management, social support, relapse prevention, and other topics. The text is supported by hundreds of references. The manual also includes promotional information with sample ads, letters, flyers, and press releases to use in promoting your Quit Smart program. Certified facilitators also may purchase Quit Smart Stop Smoking Kits in quantities of 20 or more at a 25 percent discount, to provide to smokers who would like to quit.

"The excellent Leader Manual provided everything I
needed to implement my Quit Smart program."
Philip Cardamone, Psy.D.
South Windsor, Connecticut

"I recommend this program."
Jamie Dillon, MS, RRT
Reviewer, Advance for Respiratory Care Practitioners

"This kit should be studied and used by
all members of the health profession."
Helen Sibilano, RN, MSN
Reviewer, Oncology Nursing Forum

"The Quit Smart book and tape are terrific."
Belinda Novik, Ph.D.
Past President
NC Society of Clinical Hypnosis

"The appealing prose, cartoons and charts [in the
Quit Smart book] make for engaging reading."
Dr. Mark J. Tager
Reviewer, American Journal of Health Promotion

Upcoming QuitSmart Stop Smoking Seminars:

The cost is $220 for a seminar only / $295 with the QuitSmart Leader Manual and a sample QuitSmart Kit. The Home-Study Seminar costs $295 and includes a Leader Manual and sample QuitSmart Kit.

Sorry, no seminars are scheduled. Please consider sponsoring a seminar at your site, or enrolling in the home-study seminar.
Date and Location TBD
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Home-Study Certification
Note: Videos will be sent on DVD, unless you call or email to request VHS tape.
Enroll online (with Leader Manual)

Register by calling toll-free 1-888-73-SMART (76278)
or
download the seminar brochure (PDF format)

If you have further questions, please visit the facilitators'
FAQ
or send email to
Dr. Robert Shipley.

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