Think for one moment about the point of preventative public health services, such as sexual health clinics, suicide prevention schemes and smoking cessation programmes – to avert serious problems and crises later on – and it really isn't difficult to join the dots.
Implementation of smoking cessation programmes with high reach among low socioeconomic groups is recommended.
Examples include focussing initiatives and resources in areas of greatest neighbourhood deprivation, and smoking cessation programmes.
The importance of smoking cessation is stressed and patients will be offered referral to smoking cessation programmes.
The proportion of eligible participants who enrol in smoking cessation programmes is an important index of potential population impact.
High nicotine dependence strongly predicted failure to quit smoking 15 or the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation programmes.
Our literature search identified one Cochrane review on smoking cessation programmes during pregnancy and two other observational studies (Table 5).
Our findings support the need for the development of targeted strategies for smoking cessation programmes that are offered to smokers from different cultural backgrounds.
At present, many local and nationwide integrated lifestyle programmes have been developed, such as the Beweegkuur (exercise on prescription) and smoking cessation programmes.
Preoperative smoking counselling and implementation of smoking cessation programmes should be performed prior to an elective surgery such as knee/hip replacement.
(Joint LA/NHS employee 03) You don't have people jumping up and down that we don't have enough smoking cessation programmes, you know?
