Smoking Cessation

• Verlag: European Respiratory Society
• Jahr: 2008
• ISBN:
  9781904097785
• Thema: Medicine
• Thema: Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine

This book offers a comprehensive review of the different aspects of smoking and smoking cessation. The following topics are discussed: epidemiology, tobacco/nicotine addiction, characteristics of patients who smoke, psychological and behavioural interventions, pharmacological treatment, education of the patient and clinician alike, as well as the current economics of smoking cessation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Contents
• Guest editor
• Preface
• Chapter 1 - European Respiratory Society activities for a smoke-free Europe
• Chapter 2 - The role of chest physicians in tobacco control: a historical perspective. From health education in school to smoking cessation in hospitals
• Chapter 3 - Smoking cessation in public health and in clinical practice: two difference perspectives for the chest physician
• Chapter 4 - The costs of smoking and the economics of smoking cessation
• Chapter 5 - Review of current smoking cessation guidelines
• Chapter 6 - Assessment of the patient
• Chapter 7 - The stage-of-change model in smoking cessation in respiratory patients: does it need to be revisited?
• Chapter 8 - How to communicate with the smoking patient
• Chapter 9 - Psychological and behavioural interventions for smoking cessation
• Chapter 10 - Pharmacological treatment for smoking cessation
• Chapter 11 - Organising a network for smoking cessation: the role of general practitioners
• Chapter 12 - The effect of active and passive smoking on inhaled drugs in respiratory patients
• Chapter 13 - Lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomographic scanning and smoking habits
• Chapter 14 - Surgery and smoking cessation
• Statements of interest
• Previously published