PG19 How to set up and deliver a smoking cessation service in a pulmonology department

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: A. Trofor (Iasi, Romania), C. Jimenez Ruiz (Madrid, Spain)
Aims: To analyse the burden of smoking in COPD patients; to study the smoking characteristics of smokers with COPD; to show the psychological approach for smoking cessation in smokers with COPD; to show pharmacological treatments for smoking cessation in smokers with COPD; and to face smoking cessation of COPD smokers in a clinical setting.

HERMES syllabus links: B.1.4 COPD, B.6.8 Smoking-related disease, E.1.19 Smoking cessation

Type of course: Lecture and case based

Epidemiological studies on COPD smokers D. Mannino (Lexington, United States of America)
Smoking characterisitics of COPD smokers S. Nardini (Vittorio Veneto, Italy)
Psychological approach to smoking cessation in COPD smokers C. Gratziou (Athens, Greece)
Pharmacological treatment for smoking cessation on COPD smokers K. Fagerstrom (Kågeröd, Sweden)