Quit tobacco use: status of tobacco cessation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Publication date: 2024
The need to scale up cessation services in the Region is high given absolute numbers of tobacco users are increasing. Many countries have improved services though they have yet to attain best practice level. This report has been prepared by the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and shows data on tobacco cessation services and other tobacco-related indicators. It depicts the gaps and challenges facing tobacco cessation as well as recommendations and innovative approaches for improving tobacco cessation interventions in the Region . /p> English
Integration of tobacco cessation efforts into primary health care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Publication date: 2012
Treatment of tobacco dependence should be an integral part of any comprehensive tobacco control programme as indicated in the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco control uses a combination of mostly population-based interventions to discourage tobacco use and individual-based tobacco cessation interventions. Effective treatment for individual tobacco users should be given more attention by governments since tobacco dependence is a chronic condition that often requires repeated intervention and multiple attempts to quit.
Developing and improving national toll-free tobacco quit-line services
Publication date: 2011
For most tobacco users it is difficult to cease using tobacco products on their own and they benefit from help and support to overcome their dependence. Article 14 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) mandates all its Parties to take effective measures to promote the cessation of tobacco use and adequate treatment for tobacco dependence. Parties are encouraged to implement the key effective measures recommended by the guidelines for the implementation of Article 14 of the WHO FCTC, including quit lines.
How and why to quit smoking
Publication date: 2009
This pamphlet explains the immediate and long-term health benefits of quitting smoking across all age groups. It also highlights the practical strategies and steps that smokers should follow to successfully kick the habit. It also provides comprehensive steps and information on how and why to quit tobacco use, regardless of the time the user has been using tobacco products. It acknowledges that giving up tobacco use is very challenging, as nicotine is highly addictive, but it is possible with the help of these steps.
Policy recommendations for smoking cessation and treatment of tobacco dependence
Publication date: 2003
This report discusses individual approaches (behavioural and/or pharmacological interventions) to treatment of tobacco dependence in addition to the supportive environment needed to encourage tobacco users in their attempts to quit. It also describes how the treatment of tobacco dependence should be part of a comprehensive tobacco control polic. It concludes with a set of policy recommendations for smoking cessation and treatment of tobacco dependence that governments, nongovernmental organizations and health professionals should adopt to achieve public health gains.