[Stop smoking help: keys to long term success]. / L'aide a l'arrêt du tabagisme: la réussite au long terme. Aspects psychologiques et pharmacologiques.

ABSTRACT

This review deals with the pharmacological and psychological means to help in smoking cessation and compares the efficacy of the different methods. Pharmacological support results in a smoking cessation rate reaching at best 20-25%. The efficacy of behavioural and cognitive therapy have been much less validated so far. Multidisciplinary specialized centres for helping smokers have been raised under the care of FARES in the French Community of Belgium.