Challenges & Best Practices in Smoking Cessation: Global experiences

Smoking cessation is the most impactful intervention in medicine, but it is not always straightforward how to develop and sustain a comprehensive smoking cessation clinic. Also, success rates differ enormously amongst smoking cessation clinics. Sharing experiences and best practices is an important means to improve smoking cessation clinics effectiveness. Narratives from experienced experts will focus on strategies (e.g., programmes and interventions) that have shown strong or promising evidence of effectiveness and can provide valuable insights or offer recommendations and evidence for essential components of effective programmes for helping people quit tobacco.

Moderator: Fares Mili

Panelists:

• Michael G. Toumbis
• Uta Ouali
• Kallirrhoe Kourea

Speakers

Fares Mili

MD, CTTS, NCTTP

Pulmonologist, Allergiologist, Specialist in addiction behaviors, President of the NGO “Societé Tunisienne de Tabacologie et des comportements d’addiction”

«Moderator»

Tunisia

Michael G. Toumbis

MD, PhD, FCCP, Pneumonologist

President of the Cyprus Institute of Respiratory Diseases

«Panelist»

Cyprus

Uta Ouali

Senior psychiatrist, Razi Hospital

Lecturer, University of Tunis El Manar Medical School

«Panelist»

Tunisia

Kallirrhoe Kourea

MD, PhD

Academic Fellow in Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Smoking Cessation Clinic, 2nd Cardiology Department, Attikon Hospital, Athens

«Panelist»

Greece