title: [Medical help for smorking cessation: the pneumologist's point of view].
abstract: Fighting against tobacco requires two main strategies: first, political action aims at preventing smoking beginning and to change the falsely promoted positive social image of smoking behaviour; second, the individual action of each practitioner is indeed very efficient to increase the cohort of ex-smokers. We have at our disposal, powerful, well codified and effective therapies to help patients to quit smoking. Their use ought to be focused on the following aims: detection of smokers, evaluation of motivation to quit and dependency, prescription of nicotine substitutes or bupropion, psychological support, patient follow-up and prevention of smoking relapse. In patients with COPD, smoking cessation is the only proven and effective intervention to stop disease progression and decrease COPD mortality.
authors.affiliation: Département de médecine interne, CHCVs/ Hôpital de Sierre, 3960 Sierre.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Métailler
mesh_terms: D018450:Disease Progression; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D011057:Politics; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D012924:Social Conditions; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000628:therapy*