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Smoking Prevention and Cessation (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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Smoking Prevention and Cessation (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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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.
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