[Benefit of brief interventions and pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation in teenagers].
Management of smoking includes approaches such as health advice against smoking, brief or intensive interventions, and pharmacotherapy. However, we do not have enough information on the use of such approaches in teenagers. School programs aimed at children and adolescents are perhaps the most widely used intervention and the one for which we have the most experience. Such programs should meet a series of well-defined criteria, but in recent years their effectiveness has been questioned. Currently, information is lacking on how effective these interventions are in young smokers who wish to stop. Several clinical guidelines recommend advice and a brief intervention in adolescents but are less specific regarding pharmacotherapy. By integrating advice and a brief intervention into existing smoking prevention and control programs in schools, such approaches could be used to combat smoking in children and adolescents. However, the information available on the use of such interventions in children and adolescents is insufficient and more research needs to be done, particularly by health care professionals specialized in the identification of susceptible individuals and treatment of smoking.
Barrueco
Miguel
M
Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Departamento de Medicina, Universidad de Salamanca, Po. San Vincente 58-172, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. mibafe@telefónica.net
Gómez Cruz
Generoso
G
Torrecilla
Miguel
M
Pérez Trullén
Alfonso
A
Bartolomé Moreno
Cruz
C
D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors