Manual of Smoking Cessation provides the crucial knowledge
required if you are involved in helping smokers to stop. The manual
provides facts, figures, suggested interventions and sources of
further information to assist in providing evidence-based treatment
for smokers wishing to stop. This manual covers the core content
areas and key learning outcomes described in the Standard for
Training in Smoking Cessation (Health Development Agency, 2003).
Manual of Smoking Cessation is structured in two concise parts:
Part 1 provides essential information on smoking demographics,
along with the risks of smoking and the benefits of stopping; Part
2 offers a range of practical advice to implement with clients.

The Smoking Cessation Manual is an essential text for all those
involved in the provision of smoking cessation services, including
smoking cessation counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, doctors, health
promotion officers, dental professionals, and other members of the
health care team. The book is an invaluable resource for those
learning about smoking cessation, and a succinct aide-memoire to
those already practicing in the field.

The authors represent the 'who's who' in the field of smoking
cessation and are affiliated to University College London and
Cancer Research UK (Andy McEwen and Robert West), St Bartholomew's
& Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry (Peter Hajek),
and the University of Auckland (Hayden McRobbie).

Autorentext

Andy McEwen is Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer Research
UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. His current
research includes surveys of smokers and health professionals,
pharmacokinetic studies on nicotine delivery systems and clinical
trials of behavioural treatments; he also retains an interest in
nursing research. In 1997 he began his clinical and academic career
in smoking cessation with Robert West. In 2003 he took up his
current post and is Director of the Smoking Cessation Services
Research Network (SCSRN) and Programme Director of the UK National
Smoking Cessation Conference (UKNSCC).

Peter Hajek is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head of
Psychology, and Director of Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at
Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and
Dentistry, University of London. His research is concerned
primarily with understanding smoking behaviour, and developing and
evaluating smoking cessation treatments. He has authored or
co-authored over 200 publications, holds various academic and
editorial appointments, and had input into the UK Government's
initiative to establish smoking cessation services. His Unit is
involved in examining both behavioural and pharmacological
interventions, and in offering treatment to dependent smokers who
seek help.

Dr Hayden McRobbie is a Research Fellow at the Clinical
Trials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand where he
specialises in smoking cessation research and treatment. He studied
medicine at the University of Otago and after a several years in
clinical medicine he moved to London to work with Professor Peter
Hajek. He worked on a large number of projects and clinical trails
looking at ways to help people stop smoking, as well
pharmacological and behavioural methods that alleviate the symptoms
of tobacco withdrawal. In New Zealand Hayden continues his research
into treatment to help people stop smoking and retains close links
with the UK where he is a Visiting Lecturer at Barts and The
London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, and
Programme Director of the UK National Smoking Cessation
Conference.

Robert West is Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer
Research UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. He
has been researching tobacco and nicotine dependence since 1982 and
has published more than 250 scientific works. His research involves
surveys of smoking patterns, clinical trials of aids to smoking
cessation and laboratory studies of nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
He is co-author of the English National Smoking Cessation
Guidelines that provided the blueprint for the English Stop Smoking
Services and is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Addiction.

Zusammenfassung
Manual of Smoking Cessation provides the crucial knowledge required if you are involved in helping smokers to stop. The manual provides facts, figures, suggested interventions and sources of further information to assist in providing evidence-based treatment for smokers wishing to stop. This manual covers the core content areas and key learning outcomes described in the Standard for Training in Smoking Cessation (Health Development Agency, 2003). Manual of Smoking Cessation is structured in two concise parts: Part 1 provides essential information on smoking demographics, along with the risks of smoking and the benefits of stopping; Part 2 offers a range of practical advice to implement with clients. The Smoking Cessation Manual is an essential text for all those involved in the provision of smoking cessation services, including smoking cessation counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, doctors, health promotion officers, dental professionals, and other members of the health care team. The book is an invaluable resource for those learning about smoking cessation, and a succinct aide-memoire to those already practicing in the field.

The authors represent the 'who's who' in the field of smoking cessation and are affiliated to University College London and Cancer Research UK (Andy McEwen and Robert West), St Bartholomew's & Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry (Peter Hajek), and the University of Auckland (Hayden McRobbie).

Inhalt

About the Authors.

Acknowledgements.

Statements of Professional Interest.

Foreword.

Introduction.

Part 1: Essential Information.

Chapter 1: Smoking demographics.

1.1 Smoking patterns.

1.2 Smoking cessation.

1.3 Sources for updating prevalence statistics.

1.4 Multiple choice questions.