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all cessation assistance that imparts knowledge about tobacco use and quitting, provides support, and teaches skills and strategies for changing behaviour. It includes brief advice and intensive behavioural support. Brief advice Advice to stop using tobacco – usually taking only a few minutes – given to all tobacco users,
2 lip 2024 · The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a comprehensive set of tobacco cessation interventions, including behavioural support delivered by health-care providers, digital cessation interventions and pharmacological treatments in a first guideline on tobacco cessation.
2 lip 2024 · This guideline provides technical guidance on a thorough set of tobacco cessation interventions for adults, and to support WHO Member States to use evidence-based behavioural interventions and pharmacological treatments for tobacco cessation as part of a comprehensive tobacco control approach.
It is important to raise awareness about the effectiveness of behavioural and pharmacological interventions for quitting smokeless tobacco use, the availability of such medications, and the recommended medications (NRTs and varenicline) among smokeless tobacco users and health-care providers.
A fact sheet with tips to reduce nicotine cravings and manage withdrawal symptoms when quitting tobacco.
Intervention group: Oral exam (3-5 min) with feedback, photos of ST effects, advice to quit, self-help manual, optional brief counselling (15-20 min) about quit date, triggers, tobacco withdrawal); optional nicotine gum (to mitigate withdrawal symptoms), optional phone counselling.
The USPHS system for office practice, often referred to as the “5As,” consists of the following 5 steps: 1) ask all patients about tobacco use; 2) advise all smokers to quit tobacco; 3) assess a smoker’s readiness to quit tobacco; 4) assist smokers to quit; and 5) arrange follow-up.
