BCACP/BCGP Clinical Session: Clearing the Clouds: Navigating Smoking Cessation in Older Adults

This presentation will help the audience to navigate the numerous available tobacco cessation guidelines and position statements so they can implement routine tobacco cessation services at their clinical sites. Special focus will be on older adults with tobacco dependence. We will begin with a review of first line pharmacotherapy options for treating older adults with tobacco dependence. Current guidelines and position statements will be discussed. Then we will review the use of monotherapy versus combination pharmacotherapy for the treatment of older adults with tobacco dependence. Next the audience will design an individualized smoking cessation treatment plan for an older adult through interactive case studies. During the case studies, we will examine obstacles encountered by older adults associated with tobacco cessation and recommend solutions. Finally, we will end with a discussion on areas in which a clinical pharmacist can impact the care of older adults with tobacco.

This activity is approved for Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP) and Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) recertification credit. 

The BCACP/BCGP Clinical Sessions are part of the professional development program for the recertification of board-certified Ambulatory Care and Geriatric pharmacists by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties and jointly provided by ACCP and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). In order to earn the BCACP/BCGP recertification credit, participants must attend the session, claim the continuing pharmacy education credit, and pass the associated posttest. Access to the Clinical Sessions posttests will be available on December 18, 2024, at www.accp.com/myaccount to anyone who has purchased access to the BCACP/BCGP posttests. For participants who have not purchased access to the posttest, access can be purchased until 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 15, at the ACCP Registration Desk. The deadline to submit posttests for these sessions will be December 16, 2025. 

	Speaker: Laura A. Schalliol, Pharm.D., BCACP, BCGP Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice South College School of Pharmacy Knoxville, Tennessee   View Biography
	Speaker: Kelsee Tignor, Pharm.D. ​Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice​ ​South College School of Pharmacy Knoxville, Tennessee   View Biography