title: [Smoking cessation in patients with COPD].
abstract: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of death worldwide. Cigarette smoking is the main cause of COPD. Quitting smoking is thus the most effective treatment strategy and central in COPD prevention. A number of guidelines on prevention, diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation of COPD have been published. To help implementing and standardizing smoking cessation in COPD a guideline was published 2008 in Germany focusing on this complex issue. The present guideline is an update of the 2008 guideline and has a high grade of evidence (S3 according to the AWMF; Arbeitsgemeinschaft wissenschaftlicher medizinischer Fachgesellschaften). The guideline gives comprehensive and practical information on how to integrate smoking cessation as an central part of COPD therapy.
authors.affiliation: Lungenfachklinik Immenhausen, Immenhausen und Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Andreas
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Tübingen.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Batra
authors.affiliation: Fachkliniken München-Gauting und Medizinische Klinik und Polklinik V der Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, München.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Behr
authors.affiliation: Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald.
authors.forename: J-F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Chenot
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Lungen- und Bronchialmedizin, Klinikum Kassel, Kassel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gillissen
authors.affiliation: Facharztpraxis für Pneumologie, Berlin.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hering
authors.affiliation: Thoraxklinik am Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg, Mitglied des DZL, Heidelberg.
authors.forename: F J F
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Herth
authors.affiliation: Thoraxklinik am Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg, Mitglied des DZL, Heidelberg.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kreuter
authors.affiliation: Barmer GEK, Wuppertal.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meierjürgen
authors.affiliation: Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mühlig
authors.affiliation: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nowak
authors.affiliation: Lungenfachklinik Donaustauf und Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pfeifer
authors.affiliation: Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Raupach
authors.affiliation: Klinik Bad Reichenhall.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schultz
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Chirurgie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sitter
authors.affiliation: Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil GmbH, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Walther
authors.affiliation: Klinikum Fürth, Fürth.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Worth
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000628:therapy*; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention