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Zuzanne Martinez-Bristow, MPH, Jeri J. Sias, PharmD, Ulysses J. Urquidi, MD, MS and Chun Feng, MA

At the time this report was written, Zuzanne Martinez-Bristow was with the Center for Border Health Research, El Paso, Tex. Jeri J. Sias is with the University of Texas Austin–El Paso Pharmacy Cooperative Program, El Paso. Ulysses J. Urquidi is with the Texas Tech Health Science Center at El Paso, El Paso, and the Texas Tech Family Practice Clinic at Fabens, Fabens, Tex. Chun Feng is with the Arizona Healthcare Partnership, Tucson.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Zuzanne Martinez-Bristow (e-mail: zuzanne_bristow{at}sbcglobal.net).

Partnerships were established with the University of Arizona’s Healthcare Partnership to train promotores—Spanish-speaking community health workers—as tobacco cessation counselors. Tobacco Free El Paso certified promotores to help identify tobacco users and offer tobacco cessation counseling services.

The project certified 89 participants, of whom 95% were promotores; 88% were Hispanic/Latino, 67% were females, and 62% indicated Spanish as their primary language. Participants who completed Técnicas Básicas, Treatment Specialist, and Déjate de ese Vicio certifications significantly increased self-confidence levels to deliver brief smoking cessation interventions (P < .05). Satisfaction scores (scale = 1–5) were also relatively high for each certification (Técnicas Básicas, mean = 4.8; Treatment Specialist, mean = 4.7; Déjate de ese Vicio, mean = 4.6). The results suggest that promotores understood the concepts and methodologies presented.