Webinar “How to help people change their behaviour: a crash course on potential tools for smoking cessation”

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, 15:00-16:00 CET

Organised by SCOHRE, the International Association on Smoking Control & Harm Reduction in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University.

Supporting people to give up any unhealthy behaviour can be tricky; yet as Health Care Professionals (HCPs) we routinely get asked to think of ways to help patients drop unhealthy habits and take up healthier behaviours. Sometimes, some techniques seem to work. Some other times the ‘tried and tested’ seems to let us down. This webinar will outline psychological evidence that points to common barriers that get in the way when people attempt to undertake health-related behaviour change. It will also discuss a broad framework that can be used to address behaviour change and outline the wide range of techniques available to support patients. Tools such as Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy will be introduced and broad principles behind each one will be outlined.

Speakers

Koula Asimakopoulou, BSc (Hons), PhD, CPsychol; Professor of Health Psychology & Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Exchange, Oxford Brookes University, UK; Visiting Professor King’s College London, UK; HCPC-Registered Health Psychologist

Karl Erik Lund, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway & SCOHRE Vice-President

Heino Stover, Social Scientist Director of Institute for Addiction, Research (ISFF), Frankfurt, Germany & SCOHRE Vice-President

For more information and free registration, visit the platform (in order to participate in the webinar, you need to register).