Smoking

1995
 |  Psychology
Smoking

Author: David G. Gilbert

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 1560321717

Category: Psychology

Page: 334

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This text develops an empirically-based model reflecting the multi- dimensional, individual-difference-related causal paths associated with smoking and its reinforcing and affect-modulating effects.

Global Efforts to Combat Smoking

2008
 |  Business & Economics
Global Efforts to Combat Smoking

Author: Rajeev K. Goel

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

ISBN: 0754648656

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 168

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This book brings together the findings of economists on the effectiveness of price and non-price policy initiatives to combat smoking and draws conclusions regarding the efficacy of the various policy measures. The book will be essential reading for policy makers, health practitioners and researchers in health economics.

Smoking Prevention and Cessation

2013-07-03
 |  Medical
Smoking Prevention and Cessation

Author: Giuseppe La Torre

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781461470465

Category: Medical

Page: 478

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Tobacco smoking is considered the big killer and one of the most avoidable risk factors for many human pathologies. Reducing and controlling tobacco smoking should be a primary aim for a certain population, in order to reduce harms to health caused by this important risk factor, and it seems urgent to adopt intervention tools involved in responsibility fields such as health care, education, politics, economy and media. Among health professionals the prevalence of tobacco smoke is extremely high, more than other professional categories, and this could be partly attributed to a low weight that tobacco smoking has in the medical curriculum of future physicians, that will contribute in a determinant way to healthy choices of their patients. In order to realise that, the medical students need to be adequately trained with the aim of acquire competences and skills that help patients to prevent tobacco smoking and to increase smoking cessation, through a programme oriented to specific issue related to the potential harm of tobacco products. A survey conducted by Ferry et al. in the American Schools of Medicine underlined the lack of courses related to tobacco smoking. Moreover, a randomised trial carried out by Cummings et al., the Schools of Medicine result as the ideal setting to teach smoking cessation techniques to health professionals. The National Cancer Institute in 1992 recommended that primary and secondary prevention interventions on tobacco smoking will become mandatory in the curriculum of Medical USA students. However, until now this recommendation still is far from being fully implemented. The aim of the book is to give an overview on the epidemiology of tobacco smoking among different settings and populations, but with a special focus on health professionals and medicals students, and to show available examples of smoking prevention and cessation training in different settings.