abstract: - The revised guideline 'Treatment of tobacco addiction and smoking cessation support' offers health professionals a framework to provide evidence-based care to patients who smoke, which should aid in reducing smoking prevalence and smoke-related morbidity and mortality.- Four topics of the guideline have been revised: behavioural interventions, pharmacotherapy, e-health interventions and e-cigarettes. For the other topics, the recommendations from the 2009 version remain unaltered.- It is important that health professionals offer a made-to-measure smoking cessation advice and apply a fit-for-purpose smoking cessation intervention.- Nicotine replacement therapy remains the first-line pharmacotherapy intervention and is most effective when combined with behavioural intervention.- E-health interventions are particularly effective when they are personalised and of an interactive nature, and when text messaging is incorporated.- At present, e-cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to smoking cessation.
authors.affiliation: LUMC, afd. Public Health en Eerstelijnsgeneeskunde, Leiden.
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Chavannes
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Meijer
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wind
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: van de Graaf
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rietbergen
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Croes
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*