Intended audience: All health professionals

Course contact: Maria Lafaele

Pregnancy increases a woman’s perception of risk, triggering a strong emotional response, and making her more likely to respond to prompts to stop smoking. It is described as a window of opportunity to promote stopping smoking.

This course will take you through a series of scenarios to practice effective conversations with women who smoke in pregnancy and post-partum.

In this course, you will learn to

• discuss stopping smoking with the women you work with
• identify barriers to stopping smoking
• pick up conversational cues and turn them into opportunities to discuss stopping smoking
• provide information to increase the use of Stop Smoking Services
• practice conversations in complex situations and get some instant pointers on conversation skills, messages and how to handle myths and facts about smoking during pregnancy and post partum