Supporting smoking cessation: a guide for health professionals.

Supporting smoking cessation: a guide for health professionals is intended to serve as a resource for healthcare professionals providing advice for smoking cessation. Contents: • Introduction • Tobacco smoking: the scope of the problem • The role of health professionals • The ‘5As’ structure for smoking cessation • Nicotine addiction • Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation • Other pharmacotherapy options • Other forms of treatment and support for smoking cessation • Smoking reduction rather than smoking cessation • Relapse • Smoking cessation in high prevalence populations • Smoking cessation in populations with special needs • Secondhand smoke • Resources for health professional