The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7237 p260
22 February 2003

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HDA: Meeting DoH smoking cessation targets
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Pharmacists play "critical" role in smoking cessation

Pharmacists, together with practice nurses, midwives and health visitors, have been in the vanguard of the smoking cessation services and have a critical role in providing brief opportunistic advice and, where appropriate, in becoming smoking cessation specialists. So says a new report from the Health Development Agency. The report also gives recommendations to those providing smoking cessation services including advice on combining nicotine replacement therapies and giving NRT with bupropion (see News Feature, p262, and Special Feature, p273). In addition, the document covers smoking cessation for adolescents, pregnant women and patients with diabetes.

The HDA has also published a separate report that gives advice on meeting smoking cessation targets for primary care trusts (PDF 670K) and practitioners (PDF 60K).

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