Full Description
This book is a compact, evidence-based, readable book that offers a useful update on smoking cessation. It lists important historical landmarks in tobacco control and illustrates some of the current measures to limit tobacco use in different countries. It summarises the main pharmacokinetic and pathophysiological, effects of smoking / nicotine on the central nervous system and cardiovascular system, before describing the effects of the different pharmacotherapies currently available to help smokers stop. Further sections describe how important smoking and smoking cessation is to particular groups of patients, how they should be best approached and the benefits of smoking cessation specific to their illness.
Contents
1. Epidemiology, the world tobacco epidemic ; 2. The physiological and psychological effects of smoking ; 3. Helping individual smokers to stop ; 4. Pharmacological aids to smoking cessation ; 5. Non-pharmacological aids to smoking cessation ; 6. Smoking cessation and lung disease and COPD ; 7. Smoking cessation and heart disease ; 8. Smoking cessation and surgery ; 9. Smoking cessation and pregnancy ; 10. Smoking cessation in young people ; 11. Smoking cessation in girls/women ; 12. Smoking cessation and cancer ; 13. Smoking cessation and mental illness ; 14. Smoking cessation and other medical illness ; 15. New treatments and the future
