title: Smoking cessation guidelines--2008.
abstract: These guidelines are an up-to-date and comprehensive tool to aid health professionals in treating smokers, recommending measures and strategies for managing each case based on clinical evidence. Written in a simplified and objective manner, the text is divided into two principal sections: Evaluation and Treatment. The sections both present comments on and levels of evidence represented by the references cited, as well as some proposals for the reduction of damage and for intervening in specific and still poorly explored situations, such as relapse, passive smoking, physician smoking, and tobacco use in specific environments.
authors.affiliation: Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia, São Paulo, Brasil. jreichert32@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Jonatas
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reichert
authors.forename: Alberto José de
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Araújo
authors.forename: Cristina Maria Cantarino
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
authors.forename: Irma
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Godoy
authors.forename: José Miguel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chatkin
authors.forename: Maria da Penha Uchoa
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Sales
authors.forename: Sergio Ricardo Rodrigues de Almeida
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Santos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D011247:Pregnancy; D012008:Recurrence; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012907:Smoking / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D055815:Young Adult