Supporting Smoking Cessation - A Guide to Helping People Stop Smoking (Paperback)

This book provides an overview of why and how to support clients who want to stop smoking. It also provides educational content and exercises for the reader to help support this. The chapters cover the following areas of smoking cessation practice: monitoring and evaluating your services; national and international contexts; fitness and smoking; stress; mental health; other behaviours; talking to clients and establishing rapport; motivational interviewing and NLP; receptivity to change; social marketing; Why do people smoke? Addiction and habit; whithdrawal symptoms and management; drugs and smoking; and, relapse prevention.