Upcoming Webinar

Strategies for Recovery from Nicotine Dependence in Substance Abuse and Primary Care Settings

Tuesday, January 25, 2011
12:00 PM EST
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About the Webinar
This webinar will discuss various options for treating nicotine dependence, including integrating medication options into a comprehensive strategy for smoking cessation. Information will be presented on smoking cessation from a recovery-oriented systems of care perspective, as well as the various methods available for maintaining effective smoking cessation. Webinar participants will engage in question/answer sessions and discussion throughout the session.

About the Presenter
Jonathan Foulds, PhD. is a Professor of Public Health Sciences at Penn State University, College of Medicine. After obtaining a first class honors degree in psychology at University of Aberdeen in Scotland, he trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Glasgow, and then spent most of his career developing and evaluating methods to help smokers beat their addiction to tobacco. He obtained his PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London and worked at St George’s Hospital Medical School as the UK’s first “lecturer in tobacco addiction”. He then moved to the University of Surrey and continued to work as a principal clinical psychologist at Broodmoor Hospital, a large maximum security facility for mentally disordered offenders. He was on the Management Group of the Hungarian Anti-Smoking Campaign (1995-6), has been a technical leader of a World Health Organization project to improve the regulation of tobacco dependence treatment in Europe (2000), and was Director of Research for the UK charity, Quit, which ran the largest telephone helpline for smokers in the world at that time. He was a founding member and Vice President of the Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD) 2004-6. In the USA he has been a principal investigator on grants totaling well over $7 million, and has been invited to speak on smoking cessation in over 15 countries. He has published over 80 papers on tobacco in peer-reviewed scientific journals and continues to treat addicted smokers, teach on smoking cessation and conduct research on tobacco and health at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA.