Open AccessSmoking cessation
Author(s) -
Nicholas Zwar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
australian journal of general practice
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2208-794X
pISSN - 2208-7958
DOI - 10.31128/ajgp-03-20-5287
Subject(s) - varenicline , smoking cessation , pharmacotherapy , nicotine replacement therapy , medicine , psychiatry , tobacco control , intervention (counseling) , nicotine , disease , family medicine , public health , nursing , pathology
Although Australia is a world leader in tobacco control, smoking remains the behavioural risk factor making the largest contribution to death and disease. Smoking rates remain high in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and in people with mental health problems. Priority groups for cessation include women who are pregnant and people with cardiovascular disease.