ST&C: Tobacco Cessation & Education: Simplifying Conditions of a Social Learning Environment

• In Event: Roundtables Wed1
  In Roundtable Session: ST&C - Roundtables Wed1

Short Description

Tobacco cessation programs are implementing group-based counseling that strengthens treatment intensity, practical training, and social support interaction (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2008). Group-based counseling demonstrates a more efficient instructional method to positively influence the behavioral, environmental, and cognitive processes associated with smoking cessation (Roberts, Kerr, & Smith, 2013). This discussion offers conceptual content changes to group-based tobacco cessation programs via embedded simplifying conditions methodology in a social learning environment.

Authors

• Thomas Watson Lamey, University of South Alabama

• Gayle V. Davidson-Shivers, University of South Alabama