Module 3: Supporting Pregnant Women to Stop Smoking
With input from maternity care experts, Quit has developed online training for general practitioners to support the enhancement of knowledge and skills to confidently provide smoking cessation care to pregnant women who smoke.
Following completion of the module (Educational Activity), GPs have the option to undertake two (2) additional reinforcing activities at the end of the activity that relate to RACGP Measuring Outcomes (MO) and Reviewing Performance (RP) CPD hours or ACRRM Performance Review and Outcome Measurement CPD hours.
Duration: 60 minutes EA, 30 minutes MO (optional), 30 minutes RP (optional)
Cost: Free
Learning objectives:
1. Identify the smoking prevalence in pregnant women and which priority populations have higher rates of smoking in pregnancy.
2. Describe the health impacts of smoking in pregnancy.
3. Explain how to provide fast, simple and effective brief advice in a supportive, non-judgmental manner.
4. Outline the important role of multi-session behavioural intervention (Quitline) and how to refer patients.
5. Describe the considerations for pharmacotherapy use in pregnancy and breastfeeding, and the different types of formulations available.
6. Outline how to respond to common scenarios and myths may be encountered while supporting pregnant women to stop smoking.