Smoking cessation: what the health service can do. York: NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York. Effectiveness Matters 1998; 3:( 1).NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (1998) Smoking cessation: what the health service can do. Effectiveness matters 3, 1-4....
Smoking - Health Risks, Addiction, History: In order to explain why enormous sections of the world’s population continue to smoke, given the overwhelming medical evidence of its dangerous effects, one must understand the social history of the practice,
and propagandize of quitting is worldwide to make people realize that a variety of diseases caused by smoking is not irreversible. Health can be restored as long as smoking cessation. Only when the smokers are truly determined to build a new lifestyle can they get rid of this kind of bad ...
People who smoke are at increased risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke, chronic lung disease and premature death. After smoking cessation, these risks diminish, but little is known about the time required to regain the level of health of people who have never smoked. This ana...
Smoking - Health Risks, Legislation, Bans: For centuries, a major factor in setting public policy regarding tobacco products was the economic importance of the tobacco industry. Therefore, despite occasional efforts to prohibit the production of tobacco
This article reviews the latest evidence on supporting smokers in practice and argues that nurses working in the community are ideally placed to record smoking status, give advice, encouragement and support, refer people to local smoking cessation services and offer pharmacological treatment. 展开 ...
Use of nicotine replacement therapies nearly doubles the success rate for smoking cessation, and it is essential for all health professionals to be able to give specific advice as to how smokers may be able to quit.Previous article in issue Next article in issue...
Extensive evidence has now accumulated on the health consequences of smoking cessation. With few exceptions, disease risks are reduced after smoking cessation and continue to drop as abstinence is maintained. The review of the evidence in the 1990 Report of the Surgeon General led to major conclusio...
Smoking Cessation 3: Needed Healthcare Policy ChangesSmoking Cessation 3: Needed Healthcare Policy Changesdoi:10.1080/08964289709596364Smoking is the primary preventable cause of mortality and morbidity in our society, killing more than 430,000 people each year鈥攎ore than 1,000 a day. Despite this...
An essential treatment intervention is placing smoking and smoking cessation prominently on the healthcare agenda. Ignoring this issue has the opposite effect—silence implies consent. Imagine if healthcare professionals were to remain silent when there were indications that someone had can...