All Smoking cessation articles
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Test and reflectPatient scenarios: NICE guidance on tobacco dependency
The following case studies, written by Louise Ross, relate to her article Never give up encouraging patients to give up smoking and NG209, Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence.
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Implementing guidelines
Never give up encouraging patients to give up smoking
Louise Ross discusses key recommendations in a new NICE guideline on tobacco dependency, which offers some positive new approaches to smoking cessation
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Implementing guidelines
E-cigarettes can be a useful tool for helping smokers to quit
Louise Ross summarises the latest recommendations from NICE on stop smoking interventions and services and highlights the relevant points for primary care
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Test and reflect
NICE guideline on stop smoking services and interventions
This Guidelines in Practice CPD activity consists of 5 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) designed to test your knowledge on stop smoking interventions and services—you will then be prompted to reflect on your learning.
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News
Smoking cessation services guidance updated by NICE
NICE has published NICE Guideline (NG) 92 on Stop smoking interventions and services.
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Implementing guidelines
Estimating cardiovascular risk is key to preventing disease
Dr Alan Begg summarises new SIGN guidance and explains why lifestyle change is an essential aspect of cardiovascular risk reduction
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Differential diagnoses
Breathlessness: what's the diagnosis?
Dr Chris Cooper reflects on a variety of possible causes of breathlessness: asthma, atrial fibrillation, COPD, or something else?
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News
PHE publishes smoking cessation tool for commissioners
Public Health England (PHE) has published Models of delivery for stop smoking services: options and evidence.
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Top tips
Top tips: helping smokers to quit
Jane Wright shares 10 key points on how to support patients in their efforts to quit smoking
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Hot topic
From smoking to vaping to quitting: a nurses’ guide
Louise Ross describes how practice nurses can capture the potential of electronic cigarettes to help their patients stop smoking
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Hot topic
Could electronic cigarettes help to end the smoking epidemic?
Louise Ross shares the positive impact national guidance on electronic cigarettes has had on her local stop smoking service and encourages smokers and practitioners to read it
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Implementing guidelines
Landmark smoking guidance will help to reduce tobacco harm
Harm-reduction strategies can help people who are unable or unwilling to stop smoking completely and will support existing stop smoking services, says Dr Tonya Gillis
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Hot topic
Very brief advice can be effective in encouraging smokers to quit
Jane Wright explains how healthcare professionals should use every opportunity to give advice to smokers and enable access to NHS stop smoking services
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Implementing guidelines
Very brief advice can be used for smokers who want to quit
Delivery of effective smoking cessation interventions to smokers requires healthcare professionals to have appropriate training and skills, says Jennifer Percival
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Implementing guidelines
Stop smoking services are an integral part of smoking cessation
Dr Tim Coleman reviews guidance recommendations for primary care on strategies to support smokers to quit, and provision of NHS stop smoking services
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Implementing guidelines
NHS stop smoking services can help to improve quit rates
Professor Linda Bauld explains how NHS stop smoking services should be monitoring 4-week quit rates in addition to providing medication and behavioural support
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Implementing guidelines
Use a systematic approach to support smokers in quitting
Dr Tim Coleman explains how GPs can use a number of strategies to determine which patients are the most likely to benefit from interventions on smoking cessation
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Implementing guidelines
NICE reinforces its guidance on helping smokers to quit
Jennifer Percival highlights the importance of brief interventions in assisting smoking cessation and the vital role of the primary healthcare team in implementation
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Good practice initiative
Young people who give up smoking reduce their CVD risk
Runners up in the Guidelines in Practice Cardiovascular Disease Award, Dr Lee Casey’s team encouraged smoking cessation in young people to reduce cardiovascular effects
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Implementing guidelines
Brief and intensive interventions do help patients to quit smoking
Dr Matt Kearney discusses how GPs can implement the NICE smoking cessation guidance to increase referral rates of smokers to specialist clinics and improve quit rates
