TY - JOUR T1 - Smoking cessation: a clinical update JF - European Respiratory Review JO - EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY REVIEW SP - 171 LP - 171 DO - 10.1183/09059180.00011007 VL - 17 IS - 110 AU - G. M. Verleden AU - K. Nackaerts AU - B. Nemery AU - M. Decramer Y1 - 2008/12/01 UR - http://err.ersjournals.com/content/17/110/171.abstract N2 - 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 … ER -