Chapter 7 Smoking cessation

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7.0 Introduction

7.1 Health and other benefits of quitting

7.2 Quitting activity

7.3 Theories about smoking and quitting

7.4 What finally prompts smokers to attempt to quit?

7.5 What we know about how smokers are persuaded to attempt to quit

7.6 How smokers go about quitting

7.7 Factors that predict success or failure in quit attempts

7.8 How can relapse be prevented?

7.9 Approaches to increasing the proportion of ever smokers who have quit

7.10 Role of health professionals and social services

7.11 Smoking cessation and pregnancy

7.12 Smoking and mental health

7.13 Cessation assistance: printed self-help materials

7.14 Cessation assistance: telephone- and internet-based interventions

7.15 Individual and group-based cessation assistance

7.16 Pharmacotherapies

7.17 Contingency management/incentives

7.18 Alternative therapies and emerging treatments

7.19 Interventions for particular groups

7.20 National policy and progress in encouraging and supporting cessation

Updated (2016) by Dr Elizabeth Greenhalgh

Fourth edition (2012) updated by Suzie Stillman

Third edition (2008) drafted by Dr Andrew Ellerman, Carolyn Ford, and Suzie Stillman

'To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.'
Mark Twain