Herziene richtlijn ‘Behandeling van tabaksverslaving en stoppen met roken ondersteuning’

Revised guideline ‘Treatment of tobacco addiction and smoking cessation support’

• The revised guideline ‘Treatment of tobacco addiction and smoking cessation support’ offers health professionals a framework to provide evidence-based care to patients who smoke, which should aid in reducing smoking prevalence and smoke-related morbidity and mortality.
• Four topics of the guideline have been revised: behavioural interventions, pharmacotherapy, e-health interventions and e-cigarettes. For the other topics, the recommendations from the 2009 version remain unaltered.
• It is important that health professionals offer a made-to-measure smoking cessation advice and apply a fit-for-purpose smoking cessation intervention.
• Nicotine replacement therapy remains the first-line pharmacotherapy intervention and is most effective when combined with behavioural intervention.
• E-health interventions are particularly effective when they are personalised and of an interactive nature, and when text messaging is incorporated.
• At present, e-cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to smoking cessation.

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