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

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(More customer reviews)This is a well-written, comprehensive guide that every clinician treating tobacco dependence should read. The chapters cover both theoretical and practical issues in the treatment and prevention of tobacco dependence. This book also addresses special populations of smokers: adolescents, women, the elderly, and those with comorbid disorders. Everything from group psychotherapy to nicotine and neurotransmitters is covered in this guide, and all information is based on the latest empirical research in the field. I highly recommend this text, and I refer to mine often.

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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 Smoker seeks 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.