Smoking Cessation

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.

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