Andy McEwen & Peter Hajek 
Manual of Smoking Cessation [PDF ebook] 
A Guide for Counsellors and Practitioners

About the Authors.
Acknowledgements.
Statements of Professional Interest.
Foreword.
Introduction.
Part 1: Essential Information.
Chapter 1: Smoking demographics.
1.1 Smoking patterns.
1.2 Smoking cessation.
1.3 Sources for updating prevalence statistics.
1.4 Multiple choice questions.
Chapter 2: The health risks of smoking and the benefits of
stopping.
2.1 Smoking mortality.
2.2 Smoking morbidity.
2.3 Health benefits of smoking cessation.
2.4 Sources for updating health information and statistics.
2.5 Multiple choice questions.
Part 2: Practical Advice.
Chapter 3: Brief interventions.
3.1 Assessment and recording of smoking status.
3.2 Advising smokers to stop and assessing interest in
quitting.
3.3 Compensatory smoking.
3.4 Reasons why stopping smoking can be difficult.
3.5 Treatment to help with stopping smoking.
3.6 Referral to local services.
3.7 Wider context.
3.8 Multiple choice questions.
Chapter 4: Intensive one-to-one support and advice.
4.1 Smoking cessation treatments and their outcome.
4.2 Assessment.
4.3 Pharmacotherapy.
4.4 Behavioural support – withdrawal oriented
treatment.
4.5 Monitoring.
4.6 Multiple choice questions.
Chapter 5: Telephone counselling.
5.1 Recruiting smokers into treatment by telephone.
5.2 Behavioural support by telephone.
5.3 Multiple choice questions.
Chapter 6: Group interventions.
6.1 Recruitment and assessment.
6.2 Treatment programme for groups.
6.3 Group treatment content.
6.4 Monitoring and follow-up.
6.5 Multiple choice questions.
Answers to multiple choice questions.
Appendices

Andy Mc Ewen is Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer Research
UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. His current
research includes surveys of smokers and health professionals,
pharmacokinetic studies on nicotine delivery systems and clinical
trials of behavioural treatments; he also retains an interest in
nursing research. In 1997 he began his clinical and academic career
in smoking cessation with Robert West. In 2003 he took up his
current post and is Director of the Smoking Cessation Services
Research Network (SCSRN) and Programme Director of the UK National
Smoking Cessation Conference (UKNSCC).
Peter Hajek is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head of
Psychology, and Director of Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at
Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and
Dentistry, University of London. His research is concerned
primarily with understanding smoking behaviour, and developing and
evaluating smoking cessation treatments. He has authored or
co-authored over 200 publications, holds various academic and
editorial appointments, and had input into the UK Government’s
initiative to establish smoking cessation services. His Unit is
involved in examining both behavioural and pharmacological
interventions, and in offering treatment to dependent smokers who
seek help.
Dr Hayden Mc Robbie is a Research Fellow at the Clinical
Trials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand where he
specialises in smoking cessation research and treatment. He studied
medicine at the University of Otago and after a several years in
clinical medicine he moved to London to work with Professor Peter
Hajek. He worked on a large number of projects and clinical trails
looking at ways to help people stop smoking, as well
pharmacological and behavioural methods that alleviate the symptoms
of tobacco withdrawal. In New Zealand Hayden continues his research
into treatment to help people stop smoking and retains close links
with the UK where he is a Visiting Lecturer at Barts and The
London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, and
Programme Director of the UK National Smoking Cessation
Conference.
Robert West is Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer
Research UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. He
has been researching tobacco and nicotine dependence since 1982 and
has published more than 250 scientific works. His research involves
surveys of smoking patterns, clinical trials of aids to smoking
cessation and laboratory studies of nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
He is co-author of the English National Smoking Cessation
Guidelines that provided the blueprint for the English Stop Smoking
Services and is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Addiction.