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nmdental.org
New Mexico Department of Health offers several resources
to help people quit tobacco use. For health care providers,
there are two free online courses (with one Continuing Medi-
cal Education unit each),
Treating Nicotine Dependence in New
Mexico
and
Family Tobacco Intervention in New Mexico.
Train-
ings can be accessed at
www.nmtupac.com, by clicking the
“Health Care Providers” tab. For tobacco users who are ready
to quit, NMDOH offers free quit coaching and nicotine
patches through its telephone help lines, 1-800-QUIT NOW
and 1-855-DEJELO YA (Spanish), as well as online through
www.QuitNowNM.comand
www.DejeloYaNM.com.
Figure 4
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