Treatment of nicotine dependence without weight gain. Spring Bonnie

Cigarette smoking is the most common preventive cause of death, disease and disability in the USA. Lung cancer is the primary cause of the mortality of women, ahead of breast cancer. More than 70% of smokers express a desire to quit smoking, but cannot do it on their own. Refusal of smoking without the help of a specialist is extremely difficult, the long-term percentage of success is 3-9%. If you add to this complexity the fact that many women (and some men) are not even trying to quit smoking, because they are afraid of weight gain, it seems that it is almost impossible to quit smoking alone. Any number of consultations, even one ten -minute lesson, sharply increases the chances of a person to successfully refuse smoking. Many psychotherapists have smoking customers, but doctors do not urge their patients to quit smoking because they feel insufficiently prepared for helping smokers. There are very few books teaching the technique of rejection of smoking that could use psychiatric clinics in their activities; Almost all the books presented on the market are based on self -medication. Of those manuals that are intended for doctors, most are completely inconvenient to use, and none of them discuss secondary problems associated with a weight gain. From this guide, divided into thematic blocks, therapists can gather proven methods of rejection of smoking and methods of preventing the associated weight increase in this. All programs have undergone a thorough test in clinical trials and are backed up by long -term research - an authoritative scientific advisory council led by the chief editor of the series David X. Barlow examines and evaluates each intervention in the treatment of nicotine dependence. Bonnie Spring Director of the Institute of Public Health and Medicine (iPham), professor of preventive medicine and psychiatry in the college of arts and sciences of Weinberg.