Fast Facts: Smoking Cessation

Cigarette smoking is the single largest preventable cause of death and illness in the industrial world, and accounts for 4.9 million deaths worldwide every year. Fast Facts: Smoking cessation gives plenty of practical advice in a clear and eloquent style, along with current information about the effects of smoking on the body, of smoking cessation and the myths about smoking and quitting. The authors, both acknowledge experts in the field, have produced a concise and fascinating...
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Cigarette smoking is the single largest preventable cause of death and illness in the industrial world, and accounts for 4.9 million deaths worldwide every year. Fast Facts: Smoking cessation gives plenty of practical advice in a clear and eloquent style, along with current information about the effects of smoking on the body, of smoking cessation and the myths about smoking and quitting. The authors, both acknowledge experts in the field, have produced a concise and fascinating handbook that will prove invaluable to anyone who ever records smoking as a vital sign. Contents: Cigarettes as a nicotine delivery system, smoking patterns, social psychological and economic influences on smoking, Effects of smoking and smoking cessation, Cigarette dependence, The clinician and smoking, Treatments to aid smoking cessation.