Issues. Cessation programs are essential components of comprehensive tobacco control.
Health‐care providers, especially physicians, have major responsibility for role modeling …

Background: Brief intervention by a health professional can substantially increase smoking
cessation rates among patients. However, few studies have collected information on tobacco …

One of the strategies to reduce the number of smoking‐related deaths is to encourage the
involvement of health professionals in tobacco‐use prevention and cessation counselling …

Project Quit Tobacco International is a pioneering attempt to develop culturally appropriate
approaches to tobacco cessation within the health sectors of India and Indonesia. An …

The 3 aims of Project Quit Tobacco International are to design a tobacco curriculum for
medical colleges, develop culturally appropriate approaches to clinic and community-based …

Background: This paper describes a pioneering effort to introduce smoking cessation into
Indonesia's medical school curriculum, and the first ever attempt to fully integrate tobacco …

Tobacco use is projected to cause nearly 450 million deaths worldwide during the next 50
years. Health professionals can have a critical role in reducing tobacco use; even brief and …

Introduction: There are limited existing data describing the training methods used to educate
tobacco cessation treatment providers around the world. Aims: To measure the prevalence …

To slow and end the growing global burden of tobacco-related death and disease, schools
of public health need to provide tobacco control education and training for public health …

Design: The aim of the programme was to ultimately affect public health practice and policy
in the Kingdom of Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) by training …