Smoking Cessation in People Diagnosed with Lung Cancer

Background

Healthcare professionals, including nurses, play a fundamental role in the smoking cessation journey of patients. Successful smoking cessation can be life-changing for patients, giving them the opportunity to live a longer and improved life. This module has been designed to provide you with an understanding of the relationship between lung cancer and smoking, why smoking cessation is vitally important, and what you can do to encourage and support patients through the smoking cessation process.

While this module focuses on people diagnosed with lung cancer, it contains smoking cessation information that can be applied to any patient who smokes.

Please see our disclaimer regarding module content.

Duration
This e-learning module will take you just 60 minutes to complete. Optional pre-reading available in the ‘resources’ section of this page will take approximately 30–60 minutes. Saving where you left off, you can dip in and out of the module whenever you have the time. You are encouraged to take notes and/or save personal screenshots during the module to reinforce your learning.

Accreditation
A certificate is still available to download upon module completion to add to your portfolio, however accreditation received by the Federation of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has expired.

Nurses play a key role in the provision of smoking cessation support, which is critical to the lives of many patients.

CPD Module

This module has been developed to provide nurses with a knowledge of the importance and process of smoking cessation in patients diagnosed with lung cancer.