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- Section 1 The Subject Matter of and Approach to Psychiatry
- 1.3 Psychiatry as a worldwide public health problem
- 1.4 The history of psychiatry as a medical specialty
- 1.5 Ethics and values
- 1.6 The psychiatrist as a manager
- 1.7 Descriptive phenomenology
- 1.8 Assessment
- 1.9 Diagnosis and classification
- 1.10 From science to practice
- Section 2 The Scientific Basis of Psychiatric Aetiology
- 2.3 The contribution of neurosciences
- 2.4 The contribution of genetics
- 2.5 The contribution of psychological science
- 2.6 The contribution of social sciences
- 2.7 The contribution of epidemiology to psychiatric aetiology
- Section 3 Psychodynamic Contributions to Psychiatry
- Section 4 Clinical Syndromes of Adult Psychiatry
- 4.1 Delirium, dementia, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
- 4.2 Substance use disorders
- 4.2.1 Pharmacological and psychological aspects of drugs abuse
- 4.2.2 Alcohol use disorders
- 4.2.3 Other substance use disorders
- 4.2.3.1 Opioids: heroin, methadone, and buprenorphine
- 4.2.3.2 Disorders relating to the use of amphetamine and cocaine
- 4.2.3.3 Disorders relating to use of PCP and hallucinogens
- 4.2.3.4 Misuse of benzodiazepines
- 4.2.3.5 Disorders relating to the use of ecstasy and other ‘party drugs’
- 4.2.3.6 Disorders relating to the use of volatile substances
- 4.2.3.7 The mental health effects of cannabis use
- 4.2.3.8 Nicotine dependence and treatment
- 4.2.4 Assessing need and organizing services for drug misuse problems
- 4.3 Schizophrenia and acute transient psychotic disorders
- 4.4 Persistent delusional symptoms and disorders
- 4.5 Mood disorders
- 4.6 Stress-related and adjustment disorders
- 4.7 Anxiety disorders
- 4.8 Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- 4.9 Depersonalization disorder
- 4.10 Disorders of eating
- 4.11 Sexuality, gender identity, and their disorders
- 4.12 Personality disorders
- 4.13 Habit and impulse control disorder
- 4.14 Sleep–wake disorders
- 4.15 Suicide
- 4.16 Culture-related specific psychiatric syndromes
- Section 5 Psychiatry and Medicine
- Section 6 Treatment Methods in Psychiatry
- 6.2 Somatic treatments
- Section 7 Social Psychiatry and Service Provision
- Section 8 The Psychiatry of Old Age
- Section 9 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Section 10 Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation)
- Section 11 Forensic Psychiatry
Nicotine dependence and treatment
Nicotine dependence and treatment
- Chapter:
- Nicotine dependence and treatment
- Author(s):
Ma Inés López-Ibor
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0069
Despite the reality that smoking remains the most important preventable cause of death and disability, most clinicians underperform in helping smokers quit. Nearly 70 per cent of smokers want to quit, and 42.5 per cent attempt to quit each year. The most effective smoking cessation programmes involve a combination of pharmacotherapy and behavioural and/or cognitive counselling to improve abstinence rates. Ways to counter clinicians’ pessimism about cessation include the knowledge that most smokers require multiple attempts before they succeed in quitting.
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- Section 1 The Subject Matter of and Approach to Psychiatry
- 1.3 Psychiatry as a worldwide public health problem
- 1.4 The history of psychiatry as a medical specialty
- 1.5 Ethics and values
- 1.6 The psychiatrist as a manager
- 1.7 Descriptive phenomenology
- 1.8 Assessment
- 1.9 Diagnosis and classification
- 1.10 From science to practice
- Section 2 The Scientific Basis of Psychiatric Aetiology
- 2.3 The contribution of neurosciences
- 2.4 The contribution of genetics
- 2.5 The contribution of psychological science
- 2.6 The contribution of social sciences
- 2.7 The contribution of epidemiology to psychiatric aetiology
- Section 3 Psychodynamic Contributions to Psychiatry
- Section 4 Clinical Syndromes of Adult Psychiatry
- 4.1 Delirium, dementia, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
- 4.2 Substance use disorders
- 4.2.1 Pharmacological and psychological aspects of drugs abuse
- 4.2.2 Alcohol use disorders
- 4.2.3 Other substance use disorders
- 4.2.3.1 Opioids: heroin, methadone, and buprenorphine
- 4.2.3.2 Disorders relating to the use of amphetamine and cocaine
- 4.2.3.3 Disorders relating to use of PCP and hallucinogens
- 4.2.3.4 Misuse of benzodiazepines
- 4.2.3.5 Disorders relating to the use of ecstasy and other ‘party drugs’
- 4.2.3.6 Disorders relating to the use of volatile substances
- 4.2.3.7 The mental health effects of cannabis use
- 4.2.3.8 Nicotine dependence and treatment
- 4.2.4 Assessing need and organizing services for drug misuse problems
- 4.3 Schizophrenia and acute transient psychotic disorders
- 4.4 Persistent delusional symptoms and disorders
- 4.5 Mood disorders
- 4.6 Stress-related and adjustment disorders
- 4.7 Anxiety disorders
- 4.8 Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- 4.9 Depersonalization disorder
- 4.10 Disorders of eating
- 4.11 Sexuality, gender identity, and their disorders
- 4.12 Personality disorders
- 4.13 Habit and impulse control disorder
- 4.14 Sleep–wake disorders
- 4.15 Suicide
- 4.16 Culture-related specific psychiatric syndromes
- Section 5 Psychiatry and Medicine
- Section 6 Treatment Methods in Psychiatry
- 6.2 Somatic treatments
- Section 7 Social Psychiatry and Service Provision
- Section 8 The Psychiatry of Old Age
- Section 9 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Section 10 Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation)
- Section 11 Forensic Psychiatry
