Smoking Cessation

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-955625-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 100 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 146 g

Reihe: Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library

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.

Zielgruppe

Trainee clinicians, general practitioners, nurse specialists, and all related health care professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Keir

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pneumologie, Atmung, Asthma

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Keir E. Lewis: Epidemiology, the world tobacco epidemic
2: Keir E. Lewis: The physiological and psychological effects of smoking
3: Helen Poole, Hazel Dixon, and Keir E. Lewis: Helping individual smokers to stop
4: Stuart Rees and Keir E. Lewis: Pharmacological aids to smoking cessation
5: Stuart Rees: Non-pharmacological aids to smoking cessation
6: Carlos A. Jiménez-Ruiz: Smoking cessation and lung disease and COPD
7: Clive Weston: Smoking cessation and heart disease
8: Anthony Gibson: Smoking cessation and surgery
9: Cath Einon and Keir E. Lewis: Smoking cessation and pregnancy
10: Elin Roddy: Smoking cessation in young people
11: Yasir I. Syed: Smoking cessation in girls/women
12: Robin Ghosal: Smoking cessation and cancer
13: Cath Einon: Smoking cessation and mental illness
14: Keir E. Lewis: Smoking cessation and other medical illness
15: Christina Gratziou: New treatments and the future

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Keir Lewis qualified from Guy's & St Thomas' Medical Schools with honours in 1995. After further training in the Royal Hospital's NHS Trust (St Bartholomew's and The London) he completed his specialist training in General Internal and Respiratory Medicine back home in Wales, earning an MD Thesis from Cardiff University. He is now a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the new Swansea School of Medicine. Dr Lewis's clinical commitments are in Prince Philip Hospital,
Hywel Dda NHS Trust where he created and heads the Stop-smoking Service. His other special interest is sleep disordered breathing.