Types of Interventions for Smoking Prevention and Cessation in Children and Adolescents

Smoking among children and adolescents is a pressing public health issue that demands the development, improvement and implementation of programmes aimed at the prevention and cessation of smoking on a global scale. The objective of our article is to review the main types of interventions for smokin...

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Published inPneumologia (Bucharest, Romania) Vol. 64; no. 3; p. 58
Main Authors Nădăşan, Valentin, Chirvăsuţă, Radu, Ábrám, Zoltan, Mihăicuţă, Ştefan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Romania 01.07.2015
Subjects
Adolescent
Child
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Promotion - standards
Humans
Male
Parents - education
Patient Education as Topic
Romania
School Health Services - standards
Schools
Smoking - legislation & jurisprudence
Smoking Cessation - legislation & jurisprudence
Smoking Cessation - methods
Smoking Prevention
Students
Tobacco Smoke Pollution - legislation & jurisprudence
Tobacco Smoke Pollution - prevention & control
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Summary:Smoking among children and adolescents is a pressing public health issue that demands the development, improvement and implementation of programmes aimed at the prevention and cessation of smoking on a global scale. The objective of our article is to review the main types of interventions for smoking prevention and cessation among children and adolescents. These interventions are based on a wide variety of approaches and include school-based programmes, primary and secondary care-based interventions, programmes targeting parents and family, community-based programmes, social marketing programmes and media campaigns, legislative interventions and computer and other IT-based interventions. Generally, there is still a paucity of low level evidence regarding the efficacy of most smoking prevention and cessation programmes for children and adolescents except for a few particular types of interventions that are reasonably well documented.
ISSN:2067-2993