Helping the Hard-Core Smoker : A Clinician's Guide

by Seidman, Daniel F.; Covey, Lirio S.; Covey, Lirio S.; Rimer, Barbara K.

• ISBN13: 9780805827552
• ISBN10: 0805827552
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This book constitutes a major new resource for professionals working with hard core smokers and their families. It is designed as a practical, clinically useful and up-to-date guide for all those in a position to intervene: mental health professionals, physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals, clergy, human resource and employee assistance program corporate staff, and teachers and guidance counselors. New research suggests that difficult-to-treat smokers often have emotional problems adjusting to stopping smoking. Some also have psychiatric diagnoses or abuse other substances. These are factors which interfere with their efforts to quit. Because these difficulties have been poorly understood, hard-core smokers have not been provided with adequate resources and skills to overcome their addiction. These smokers are in need of increasingly comprehensive assessment and treatment. Despite massive public health education about the dangers of cigarette smoking, rates of smoking among the population are no longer declining in the United States and the success rates of clinical programs for smokers remain low. Helping the Hard-Core Smokerseeks to explain why current approaches are often inadequate and how best to help today's highly nicotine-dependent smokers who are struggling with their addiction quit.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Biological and Clinical Perspectives on Nicotine Addiction	p. 1
References	p. 19
Nicotine Dependence and its Associations with Psychiatric Disorders: Research Evidence and Treatment Implications	p. 23
References	p. 46
Preventing Cigarette Smoking Among Children and Adolescents	p. 51
References	p. 67
Issues for Women Who wish to Stop Smoking	p. 73
Acknowledgments	p. 86
References	p. 86
Implementation of a Prenatal Smoking Cessation Program in Three Inner-City Communities	p. 93
References	p. 111
Intervening With Older Smokers	p. 115
References	p. 130
Current Issues in Nicotine Replacement	p. 137
References	p. 153
Nonnicotine Medications for Smoking Cessation	p. 159
References	p. 171
A Psychotherapeutic Approach for Smoking Cessation Counseling	p. 175
References	p. 191
Group Psychotherapy for Hard-Core Smokers	p. 195
References	p. 210
Stopping Smoking: A Study on the Nature of Resistance and the Use of Hypnosis	p. 213
References	p. 222
A Comprehensive Psychological Approach to Preventing Relapse	p. 225
Acknowledgments	p. 243
References	p. 243
Challenges and Techniques for the Treatment of Nicotine Dependence by Physicians and Dentists	p. 245
References	p. 258
The Role of the Dental Profession in Tobacco Cessation	p. 261
References	p. 269
Afterword: The Public Health Perspective: Have Hard-Core Smokers Been Written Off?	p. 271
References	p. 276
About the Contributors	p. 279
Author Index	p. 285
Subject Index	p. 301
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