Free Training

The Center for Tobacco Cessation

The Center for Tobacco Cessation (CTC) is the training and technical arm of the California Smokers’ Helpline. CTC helps organizations throughout California to increase their capacity in tobacco cessation.

Continuing Education Units

Click here to take a course for free CEUs.

Online Trainings

Check out our recorded webinars on various cessation-related topics can be found here: Online Training

Provider Toolkits

Our online Provider Toolkits offer recorded webinars and patient educational materials on topics such as:

• Evidence-Based Tobacco Treatments
• New and Emerging Tobacco Products
• Pharmacotherapy for Smoking Cessation
• Smoking and Diabetes

Fact Sheets

Download our fact sheets on a wide variety of tobacco-related topics for patients and providers.

Live Webinars

Click here to sign up for notification by email of upcoming webinars.

Customized Training

CTC staff can put together a training tailored to the particular needs of the health professionals in your organization. Click here to submit a request.

Technical Assistance

CTC offers phone and email consultation in areas such as:

• Developing a comprehensive cessation strategy
• Tobacco cessation in special populations
• Helping your patients quit smoking
• Evidence-based behavioral treatments
• State of the art pharmacological treatments
• Preventing relapse

Additional Resources

Click here for other tobacco cessation resources for health care providers, hospitals, employers, health plans, and others.