Supporting Tobacco Cessation

Sofia Belo Ravara is Consultant of Pulmonology and Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at the University Hospital/University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal. She is also associate researcher at the National School of Public Health, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal. Between 2000 and 2010, Elif Dağli worked as Chair of the Department of Paediatrics and Head of Paediatric Pulmonology at Marmara University Hospital (Istanbul, Turkey). She lectures on the health effects of tobacco, nicotine and novel products, tobacco control strategies, chronic lung disease of childhood, differential diagnoses by respiratory symptoms, cystic fibrosis and tuberculosis. Paraskevi Katsaounou is Assistant Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School (NKUA) (Athens, Greece) and does clinical work at the Pulmonary and Respiratory Failure Department of the first ICU of Evangelismos Hospital (Athens, Greece). Keir E. Lewis is a Professor at Swansea University (Swansea, UK) and Respiratory Lead for a group of hospitals (Hywel Dda University Health Board) in Wales, UK. Charlotta Pisinger is a medical doctor, has a PhD and a masters in public health and is Denmark’s first professor in tobacco prevention. She is a Professor at the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark).

Tobacco is still the most important preventable cause of respiratory diseases; Understanding nicotine addiction and the health effects of nicotine use; E-cigarettes, heated tobacco and other novel nicotine-containing products: a help to smokers or a public health threat? Practical guidance on the use of motivational interviewing to support behaviour change; Behaviour counselling and psychosocial interventions. The role of patient involvement; Evidence of the effectiveness and safety of first-line smoking cessation pharmacotherapy; Optimising health systems to deliver tobacco-dependence treatment; Asthmatic patients; COPD patients; Lung cancer patients; Tuberculosis patients; Patients living with other respiratory diseases; Cardiovascular patients; Patients with common endocrine disorders; “It’s the one thing they have left”: smoking, smoking cessation and mental health; Preventing tobacco use and exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke in pregnancy; Preventing the initiation of tobacco and e-cigarette use among the youth