Supporting smoking cessation

摘要: #### Summary points Despite the decrease in prevalence of tobacco use developed countries, smoking remains most common preventable cause disease and death world today. Advice on cessation from doctors other health professionals has been shown to improve quit rates is highly cost effective.1 Given importance benefits cessation, every doctor should encourage attempts stop, be able provide brief intervention, aware referral options (see box 1). Over past decade there have advances science practice support. These include new medicines treat nicotine dependence, ways using existing medicines, increasing technology support behavioural change. This review provides an update evidence based approaches maximise effectiveness treatment dependence. #### Sources selection criteria This synthesis relevant Cochrane systematic reviews; distillation clinical guidelines Australia, United States, New Zealand; information UK National Centre for Smoking Cessation Training (www.ncsct.co.uk); authors’ personal libraries. We focused developments since by Aveyard West 2007.2 The varies around world. Of …