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There is evidence that helping smokers to stop smoking can be effective and highly cost-effective.
The basic essentials are:
- ASK about tobacco smoking at every opportunity
- ADVISE all smokers to stop smoking
- ASSIST all smokers to stop smoking
- ARRANGE follow up
There is evidence that even brief intervention (2-3 minutes) has a worthwhile effectiveness.
Useful features of intervention are to:
- set a date to stop completely
- review previous attempts to stop smoking - and what helped/hindered
- plan ahead - identify potential problems and strategies to cope
- plan how to handle alcohol drinking situations
- try smoking cessation treatment e.g. nicotine replacement therapy, buproprion
Reference:
- British Heart Foundation, Factfile 6/99.
Last reviewed 02/2020
Links:
- efficacy
- smoking
- nicotine replacement therapy
- bupropion
- stopping smoking and ischaemic heart disease
- weight gain and zyban
- NICE guidance - use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) , varenicline and bupropion for smoking cessation
- varenicline
- rimonabant
- carbon monoxide monitoring in smoking cessation
- NICE guidance - stopping smoking in pregnancy