Smoking among health professionals

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to offer advanced data and information carried out and supported by relevant and robust scientific reports and studies on:prevalence of smokers among hospital professionals;knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards smoking;interventions to prevent and discourage smoking in a health-care sector.The intention is to give an overview on the prevalence of tobacco smoking among health professionals and medicals students in different countries and to show available examples of smoking prevention and cessation training. In this context, the aims of this section were to investigate and to delineate a review based on the analysis of different smoking cessation interventions aimed to health-care workers and to identify the most effective ones for health professionals and medical students and to describe the current efforts to frame policy prevention strategies smoking cessation interventions—targeted in hospital or during study course—to have a greater positive impact as an example by quitting smoking both for themselves and their patients, so for community and public health.