ABC of Smoking Cessation,9780727918185

ABC of Smoking Cessation

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780727918185
ISBN10: 0727918184
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-09-01
Publisher(s): John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary

The ABC of Smoking Cessation explains the practical problem of smoking and its contribution to health, and what can and should be done about it.It explains how much smoking damages health at individual and public level; the central role of nicotine addiction in smoking: how to assess and assist individual smokers to quit smoking; how to set up smoking cessation services; the problems and dealing with smoking in special groups such as the young, or pregnant women; approaches to reducing the harm caused by smoking; the economic impact of smoking; and the public health and policy initiatives that can be used to reduce smoking.It is a practical guide to dealing with one of the most important public health problems in the world.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Preface ix
The problem of tobacco smoking
1(3)
Richard Edwards
Why people smoke
4(3)
Martin J Jarvis
Assessment of dependence and motivation to stop smoking
7(2)
Robert West
Use of simple advice and behavioural support
9(3)
Tim Coleman
Nicotine replacement therapy
12(3)
Andrew Molyneux
Bupropion and other non-nicotine pharmacotherapies
15(3)
Elin Roddy
Special groups of smokers
18(3)
Tim Coleman
Cessation interventions in routine health care
21(3)
Tim Coleman
Setting up a cessation service
24(3)
Penny Spice
Population strategies to prevent smoking
27(4)
Konrad Jamrozik
Harm reduction
31(3)
Ann McNeill
Economics of smoking cessation
34(3)
Steve Parrott
Christine Godfrey
Policy priorities for tobacco control
37(4)
Konrad Jamrozik
Index 41

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