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Self-Care Educational Materials and Smoking Cessation Counseling Skill Manuals have been designed for pharmacists and issued to advanced training course participants to provide pharmacists engaged in smoking cessation and health education with the ability to make optimal use of their acquired communication skills in future smoking cessation counseling sessions for the public. Between 2012 and 2018, 2,897 pharmacists participated in advanced training courses on smoking cessation and 2,557 pharmacists have acquired advanced certificates (Acquisition rate of 88.2%) (Table 1-6). In conclusion, every trainee scored higher in the post-test than the pre- test after training program, and more than 90% of the students were satisfied with the courses. In addition, smoking cessation case management system was established, manual and guidelines for smoking cessation consultation skills was developed and provided as health education materials for pharmacists. Moreover, in order to formulate projects to improve the performance of counseling and case management of smoking cessation pharmacists in the future, the current status and obstacles of trained and qualified pharmacists participating in smoking cessation services were investigated. Table 1-6 Number of trainees who underwent the smoking cessation pharmacist training program across the years Year Basic training Intermediate training Advanced training Instructor training License renewal training 2010 698 101 2011 527 209 2012 Organized by county/city health bureaus 644 359 37 2013 544 368 44 2014 Organized by county/ city health bureaus 704 134 2015 670 93 2016 288 381 2017 282 720 2018 226 181 Total 1,225 1,588 2,897 308 1,282 64 Note: The number of trainees shown in this Table refers to those who have completed all three course levels, and does not include trainees who have not completed the practical courses. The Taiwan Pharmacist Association has set up a Facebook Fanpage titled "Second-Generation Smoking Cessation and Health and a closed group named "Taiwan Pharmacist Association Smoking-Cessation Pharmacist Discussion Forum" to facilitate the communication of information pertaining to rele-vant policies and smoking cessation. These online platforms give pharmacists who have signed contracts a chance to discuss issues encountered in the execution and provide online consultation and exchanges without time or space constraints. Relevant information is discussed and problems are solved in a unified manner upon compilation and organization of statistics.