McEwen / Hajek / McRobbie Manual of Smoking Cessation

A Guide for Counsellors and Practitioners
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75784-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten, E-Book

Manual of Smoking Cessation provides the crucial knowledgerequired if you are involved in helping smokers to stop. The manualprovides facts, figures, suggested interventions and sources offurther information to assist in providing evidence-based treatmentfor smokers wishing to stop. This manual covers the core contentareas and key learning outcomes described in the Standard forTraining 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; Part2 offers a range of practical advice to implement with clients.
The Smoking Cessation Manual is an essential text for all thoseinvolved in the provision of smoking cessation services, includingsmoking cessation counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, doctors, healthpromotion officers, dental professionals, and other members of thehealth care team. The book is an invaluable resource for thoselearning about smoking cessation, and a succinct aide-memoire tothose already practicing in the field.
The authors represent the 'who's who' in the field of smokingcessation and are affiliated to University College London andCancer 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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

McEwen, Andy

Hajek, Peter

McRobbie, Hayden

West, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.
Chapter 2: The health risks of smoking and the benefits ofstopping.
2.1 Smoking mortality.
2.2 Smoking morbidity.
2.3 Health benefits of smoking cessation.
2.4 Sources for updating health information and statistics.
2.5 Multiple choice questions.
Part 2: Practical Advice.
Chapter 3: Brief interventions.
3.1 Assessment and recording of smoking status.
3.2 Advising smokers to stop and assessing interest inquitting.
3.3 Compensatory smoking.
3.4 Reasons why stopping smoking can be difficult.
3.5 Treatment to help with stopping smoking.
3.6 Referral to local services.
3.7 Wider context.
3.8 Multiple choice questions.
Chapter 4: Intensive one-to-one support and advice.
4.1 Smoking cessation treatments and their outcome.
4.2 Assessment.
4.3 Pharmacotherapy.
4.4 Behavioural support - withdrawal orientedtreatment.
4.5 Monitoring.
4.6 Multiple choice questions.
Chapter 5: Telephone counselling.
5.1 Recruiting smokers into treatment by telephone.
5.2 Behavioural support by telephone.
5.3 Multiple choice questions.
Chapter 6: Group interventions.
6.1 Recruitment and assessment.
6.2 Treatment programme for groups.
6.3 Group treatment content.
6.4 Monitoring and follow-up.
6.5 Multiple choice questions.
Answers to multiple choice questions.
Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Andy McEwen is Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer ResearchUK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. His currentresearch includes surveys of smokers and health professionals,pharmacokinetic studies on nicotine delivery systems and clinicaltrials of behavioural treatments; he also retains an interest innursing research. In 1997 he began his clinical and academic careerin smoking cessation with Robert West. In 2003 he took up hiscurrent post and is Director of the Smoking Cessation ServicesResearch Network (SCSRN) and Programme Director of the UK NationalSmoking Cessation Conference (UKNSCC).
Peter Hajek is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head ofPsychology, and Director of Tobacco Dependence Research Unit atBarts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine andDentistry, University of London. His research is concernedprimarily with understanding smoking behaviour, and developing andevaluating smoking cessation treatments. He has authored orco-authored over 200 publications, holds various academic andeditorial appointments, and had input into the UK Government'sinitiative to establish smoking cessation services. His Unit isinvolved in examining both behavioural and pharmacologicalinterventions, and in offering treatment to dependent smokers whoseek help.
Dr Hayden McRobbie is a Research Fellow at the ClinicalTrials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand where hespecialises in smoking cessation research and treatment. He studiedmedicine at the University of Otago and after a several years inclinical medicine he moved to London to work with Professor PeterHajek. He worked on a large number of projects and clinical trailslooking at ways to help people stop smoking, as wellpharmacological and behavioural methods that alleviate the symptomsof tobacco withdrawal. In New Zealand Hayden continues his researchinto treatment to help people stop smoking and retains close linkswith the UK where he is a Visiting Lecturer at Barts and TheLondon, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, andProgramme Director of the UK National Smoking CessationConference.
Robert West is Director of Tobacco Studies at the CancerResearch UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. Hehas been researching tobacco and nicotine dependence since 1982 andhas published more than 250 scientific works. His research involvessurveys of smoking patterns, clinical trials of aids to smokingcessation and laboratory studies of nicotine withdrawal symptoms.He is co-author of the English National Smoking CessationGuidelines that provided the blueprint for the English Stop SmokingServices and is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Addiction.