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Publications on smoking cessation

Key publication

• Developing and improving national toll-free tobacco quit line services
  This manual, based on experiences from quit lines around the world, provides technical advice and case examples for establishing and operating a national quit line service, with a focus on choosing appropriate service delivery options, optimizing population coverage and utilization, and partnerships with health-care systems.

2004

• WHO European strategy for smoking cessation policy
  This publication aims to provide guidelines and support to the Member States in building capacity to strengthen their smoking cessation activities.

2003

• Policy recommendations for smoking cessation and treatment of tobacco dependence
  This document has been produced following the WHO meeting on Global Policy for Smoking Cessation which took place in Moscow on 14 and 15 June 2002. The purpose of the meeting was to develop policy recommendations for smoking cessation and treatment of tobacco dependence.

2002

• Effective access to tobacco dependence treatment – success stories
  It is necessary to help those who wish to quit by making it easier for them to obtain the wide range of interventions for cessation including behavioural therapy and pharmacological interventions. Such experiences in New Zealand and England have been published in the series ‘Tools for Advancing Tobacco Control in the XXIst Century. Success stories and lessons learned’.

1999

• Mayo report on addressing the worldwide tobacco epidemic through effective, evidence-based treatment
  In 1999, WHO convened a meeting of experts from developed and developing countries at the Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Centre in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. The objective of this meeting was to prepare a statement on the treatment of tobacco dependence based upon the best available scientific information at that time.