Support for smoking cessation within the context of health care

█ Review

DOI: 10.26430/CHUNGARICA.2024.54.1.60

Authors:
Cselkó Zsuzsa, Fényes Márta
Országos Korányi Pulmonológiai Intézet, Budapest

Summary
Smoking is the leading risk factor for noncommunicable diseases and mortality. This fact is becoming more widely known, and as a result, the growing demand for a healthier lifestyle is spreading. The rules aimed at reducing the harm caused by smoking and increasing opportunities to help people quit smoking have increased interest in quitting. The spread of novel nicotine and tobacco products, a lack of professional and public awareness about smoking, tobacco products, and coping mechanisms, and a smoking environment all impede the development of antismoking social attitudes and the decline in smoking prevalence. Among the measures aimed at reducing smoking, quit support should be emphasized much more than previously. Tobacco addiction is a chronic disease and the role of the healthcare professional/counselor in its treatment is critical. The aim of this paper is to supplement the above statements with the experiences of the reports of the National Methodology Center for Smoking Cessation Support, which has been operating at the National Korányi Institute of Pulmonology since 2012. The data and information provided are based on research in the international literature and the reports of the National Methodology Center for Smoking Cessation. Long-term behavioral change guided by specialists and pharmacotherapeutic support lead to long-term cessation.

ISSUE: CARDIOLOGIA HUNGARICA | 2024 | VOLUME 54, ISSUE 1

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