The smoking cessation field has undergone rapid growth over the last few years and there is now an extensive group of health care professionals from many different backgrounds who have become involved in this area. Smoking cessation is an important issue and there is ever increasing pressure to treat more smokers more effectively.
New advances in service development and in research into treating smokers are now regularly being reported in addition to the wealth of experience being gained by smoking cessation services and clinicians from around the UK. The Manual of Smoking Cessation: A guide for counsellors and practitioners expertly synthesises the evidence base with current good practice to produce detailed advice on how best to help smokers to quit.
The manual aims to provide facts, figures, suggested interventions and sources of further information to assist you in providing evidencebased treatment for smokers wishing to stop. This manual covers the core content areas and key learning outcomes described in the Standard for training in smoking cessation treatments published by the Health Development Agency in 2003.
The book is divided into two parts and six chapters:
Part One: Essential Information
- Chapter 1 ‘Smoking demographics’ looks at the prevalence and patterns of smoking and smoking cessation.
- Chapter 2 ‘The health risks of smoking and the benefits of stopping’.
Part Two: Practical Advice
- Chapter 3 ‘Brief interventions’ gives information to help you assess and record smoking status, advise smokers to stop and assess their interest in quitting. This chapter also covers nicotine dependence, compensatory smoking and onward referral.
- Chapter 4 ‘Intensive one-to-one support’ gives you the knowledge needed to provide intensive one-to-one behavioural support. It covers assessing nicotine dependence and motivation to quit, plus smoking cessation treatments, their outcomes and medications available to help with stopping smoking.
- Chapter 5 ‘Telephone counselling’.
- Chapter 6 ‘Group interventions’ provides information needed to carry out group interventions with smokers. This chapter covers the content of group treatment, the means of providing it and managing group processes.
This manual is not intended as a substitute for obtaining training and experience in smoking cessation. It is designed to complement any training that you receive and to encourage you to maximise the experience that you can gain from working with smokers wanting to stop.
Contents
- About the authors
Part One: Essential Information
1 Smoking demographics
- 1.1 Smoking patterns
- 1.2 Smoking cessation
- 1.3 Sources for updating prevalence statistics
- 1.4 Multiple choice questions
2 The health risks of smoking and the benefits of stopping
- 2.1 Smoking mortality
- 2.2 Smoking morbidity
- 2.3 Health benefits of smoking cessation
- 2.4 Sources for updating health information and statistics
- 2.5 Multiple choice questions
Part Two: Practical Advice
3 Brief interventions
- 3.1 Assessment and recording of smoking status
- 3.2 Advising smokers to stop and assessing interest in quitting
- 3.3 Compensatory smoking
- 3.4 Reasons why stopping smoking can be difficult
- 3.5 Treatment to help with stopping smoking
- 3.6 Referral to local services
- 3.7 Wider context
- 3.8 Multiple choice questions
4 Intensive one-to-one support and advice
- 4.1 Smoking cessation treatments and their outcome
- 4.2 Assessment
- 4.3 Pharmacotherapy
- 4.4 Behavioural support – withdrawal oriented treatment
- 4.5 Monitoring
- 4.6 Multiple choice questions
5 Telephone counselling
- 5.1 Recruiting smokers into treatment by telephone
- 5.2 Behavioural support by telephone
- 5.3 Multiple choice questions
6 Group interventions
- 6.1 Recruitment and assessment
- 6.2 Treatment programme for groups
- 6.3 Group treatment content
- 6.4 Monitoring and follow-up
- 6.5 Multiple choice questions
Answers to multiple choice questions
Appendices
- Appendix 1 Bupropion (Zyban) – special patient groups
- Appendix 2 Bupropion (Zyban) – drug interactions
- Appendix 3 Effect of tobacco abstinence on metabolism of some drugs
- Appendix 4 Resources
- Appendix 5 Examples of what to say when intervening with smoking clients
Index
About the authors
- Andy McEwen is Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. His current research includes surveys of smokers and health professionals, pharmacokinetic studies on nicotine delivery systems and clinical trials of behavioural treatments. He also retains an interest in nursing research. In 1997, he began his clinical and academic career in smoking cessation with Robert West. In 2003, he took up his current post and is Director of the Smoking Cessation Services Research Network (SCSRN) and Programme Director of the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference (UKNSCC).
- Peter Hajek is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head of Psychology, and Director of Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Bart’s and the London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London. His research is concerned primarily with understanding smoking behaviour and developing and evaluating smoking cessation treatments. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications, holds various academic and editorial appointments and had input into the UK Government’s initiative to establish smoking cessation services. His unit is involved in examining both behavioural and pharmacological interventions, and in offering treatment to dependent smokers who seek help.
- Hayden McRobbie is a Research Fellow at the Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he specialises in smoking cessation research and treatment. He studied medicine at the University of Otago and after several years in clinical medicine he moved to London to work with Professor Peter Hajek. He worked on a large number of projects and clinical trials looking at ways to help people stop smoking, as well as pharmacological and behavioural methods that alleviate the symptoms of tobacco withdrawal. In New Zealand, Hayden continues his research into treatment to help people stop smoking and retains close links with the UK, where he is a visiting lecturer at Bart’s and the London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry and Programme Director of the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference.
- Robert West is Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. He has been researching tobacco and nicotine dependence since 1982 and has published more than 250 scientific works. His research involves surveys of smoking patterns, clinical trials of aids to smoking cessation and laboratory studies of nicotine withdrawal symptoms. He is co-author of the English National Smoking Cessation Guidelines that provided the blueprint for the English Stop Smoking Services and is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Addiction.
Product Details
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (July 10, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1405133376
- ISBN-13: 978-1405133371
- Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.4 x 9.6 inches
List Price: $52.99