Target audience
- The main target audience are trainees in respiratory medicine
and young doctors.
Educational aims
After completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understanding the mechanistic aspects of nicotine addiction
and craving
- Learn how to treat of nicotine addiction
- Learn techniques to motivate smokers who are ready to change
and those who are reluctant to change
- Identify individual characteristics of smokers that may
predict success in smoking cessation
- Organise and run a smoking cessation service for patients
- Structure a course related to this topic in their own country