National Stop Smoking Program
Organisation
Swiss Cancer League, Swiss Heart Foundation, Swiss Association for Smoking Prevention (AT)
supported by the Tobacco Control Fund
Main goals
The main goals of the National Stop Smoking Program are to motivate and enable health care professionals in stop-smoking counselling. Projects carried out in a health care setting lay the foundation for a broad-based smoking cessation. As a result, smokers interested in quitting can increasingly obtain professional support incorporating the latest scientific findings.
The various campaigns draw smokers' attention to possibilities for obtaining assistance - e.g. the Quit and Win Competition held on the annual World No Tobacco Day - if and when they decide to stop. The National Stop Smoking Program has been in existence since 2001. It is provisionally planned for the programme to continue into 2012.
The projects
To date four projects have been established, and two more are being developed, in a health care setting. These are projects aimed at particular target groups, e.g. doctors, dental practices, pharmacies, hospitals, medical practices specialized in diabetes or cardiovascular disease, and professionals other than doctors dealing with cardiovascular patients.
| Name of project | Since | Activities | Main target groups |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tobacco free | 2001 | Smoking Cessation Intervention Training for physicians | GP's |
| Tobacco - intervention in dental practices | 2002 | Smoking cessation lessons in under graduated education and in further education for dentists, dental hygienists, prophylaxis assistants | The whole team of dental practices |
| Smoking Cessation in Pharmacies | 2004 | Smoking cessation lessons in under graduated education and in further education for pharmacists and pharmacy assistants | The whole team of in pharmacies |
| Hospital Quit Support | 2005 | Implementation of hospital-based smoking cessation services | Major Suisse hospitals |
| Brief intervention in cardiovascular and diabetes practices | 2007 | Smoking Cessation Intervention Training for cardiologists | Cardiologists |
| Brief intervention by non-medical staff for cardiovascular patients and diabetes patients | 2007 | Smoking Cessation Intervention Training for advisors for diabetes patients | advisors for diabetes patients |
| Quit and Win Contest | 1994 | National contest organised early around the World No Tobacco Day | Smokers who want to quit, aged 25 - 45 |
Outcomes
- Strategy plans to enforce smoking cessation in the medical setting
- Application of the strategy plans
- Resource pooling
- Networking
- Curricula for undergraduated and further education for several health professionals
- Treatment guidelines
- Manuals (off- and online) for health professionals
- Websites for health professionals and smokers who want do quit
- Self help material
- Events