Smoking Prevention and Cessation

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Tobacco smoking is considered the big killer and one of the most avoidable risk factors for many human pathologies. Reducing and controlling tobacco smoking should be a primary aim for a certain population, in order to reduce harms to health caused by this important risk factor, and it seems urgent to adopt intervention tools involved in responsibility fields such as health care, education, politics, economy and media. Among health professionals the prevalence of tobacco smoke is extremely high, more than other professional categories, and this could be partly attributed to a low weight that tobacco smoking has in the medical curriculum of future physicians, that will contribute in a determinant way to healthy choices of their patients. In order to realise that, the medical students need to be adequately trained with the aim of acquire competences and skills that help patients to prevent tobacco smoking and to increase smoking cessation, through a programme oriented to specific issue related to the potential harm of tobacco products. A survey conducted by Ferry et al. in the American Schools of Medicine underlined the lack of courses related to tobacco smoking. Moreover, a randomised trial carried out by Cummings et al., the Schools of Medicine result as the ideal setting to teach smoking cessation techniques to health professionals. The National Cancer Institute in 1992 recommended that primary and secondary prevention interventions on tobacco smoking will become mandatory in the curriculum of Medical USA students. However, until now this recommendation still is far from being fully implemented. The aim of the book is to give an overview on the epidemiology of tobacco smoking among different settings and populations, but with a special focus on health professionals and medicals students, and to show available examples of smoking prevention and cessation training in different settings. Front Matter....Pages i-viii From Nicotine Dependence to Genetic Determinants of Smoking....Pages 1-29 State of the Art of Smoking Habits in the World....Pages 31-55 Smoking-Related Diseases Epidemiology....Pages 57-105 Smoking-Related Cancer Epidemiology....Pages 107-136 Classical Determinants of Smoking Initiation....Pages 137-150 Smoking Prevention in the Communities....Pages 151-166 Smoking Prevention Through Mass Media Campaigns....Pages 167-196 How to Tackle Smoking at the Population Level....Pages 197-214 Smoking Among Health Professionals....Pages 215-239 Basic Principles of Smoking Cessation Techniques....Pages 241-261 Smoking Cessation Among Different Settings....Pages 263-289 Media and Smoking Cessation....Pages 291-309 Ethical Aspects of Tobacco Smoking....Pages 311-331 Economic Issues Related to Tobacco Smoking....Pages 333-367 ERRATUM....Pages E1-E10 Back Matter....Pages 369-478