This presentation will review nicotine and the mechanism of addiction including why prevention of nicotine addiction is important and how to treat nicotine addiction. Resources available to nurses and providers to assist with identifying and treating patients in need will be discussed. 

• Andrea Christian, MSN, RN, NCTTP
  Tobacco Treatment Coordinator
• Alexandra Fannin, APRN, NP-C, NCTTP
  Thoracic Surgery Nurse Practitioner
  Tobacco Treatment Specialist

There is no fee for this activity, but to receive contact hours you must register online and complete the online Attestation and Evaluation form (you must register to access this form).

At the conclusion of this learning activity, participants will be able to discuss nicotine addiction as a health care issue.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity carries 1.0 contact hour.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock will award contact hour(s) for successful completion. In order to receive full contact hour credit for this Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) activity, you must:

• View the entire presentation 
• Complete the online Attestation of Attendance & Evaluation Form (you must register to access).

The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for Nursing Grand Rounds – Nicotine Addiction 101: What is it and why is it important to you? have reported NO financial interest or relationship* with various companies. There were no individuals in a position to control the content that refused to disclose.

*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.

Provider contact information for questions of the activity or regarding accreditation: 

Director of Continuing Nursing Education, Center for Nursing Excellence
Center for Learning and Professional Development
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
clpd.support@hitchcock.org