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Published on: October 22, 2020
[Smoking cessation: A challenge for cardiologists and pulmonologists]
1Institut de cardiologie, groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris Sorbonne université, 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France.
Abstract:
In addition to public health measures that need to be strongly supported politically, smoking is also a major medical issue. Tobacco dependence is a chronic disease, and, given its extremely addictive nature, treatment for tobacco dependence must be addressed actively by all health professionals. Because smoking is a major contributor to many of the pathologies their specialties address, cardiologists and pulmonologists must be at the forefront of this care. In this review we analyse the current state of smoking cessation treatment and its inadequacies, the limiting impact that doctors' own smoking has, as well as the misconceptions held by smokers and sometimes by doctors as well, which act as brakes on smoking cessation. Smoking cessation must become a treatment delivered in real clinical practice and any doctor must know how to manage it fluently. Do not be satisfied with simply advising smokers to quit. Learn how to approach the subject with smokers effectively, know how the various pharmacotherapies are used and know how to organize smoking cessation follow-up, an essential guarantee of success. If optimal management of this major pathological factor is a role for all doctors, it is of course especially so for our two specialties. It's up to us, cardiologists and pulmonologists, to take up this challenge.
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