Tobacco smoking constitutes one of the major risk factors for several pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, and also a lot of other disease entities. As a consequence, it is imperative that smoking cessation represents one of the best treatment options for a lot of these diseases. All health workers and especially smokers themselves realise that it is very difficult to quit smoking, although recently a lot of newer pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment options have become available.
The purpose of the international symposium “Smoking cessation: a clinical update”, organised by the Dept of Respiratory Diseases of the University …