Join Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Committee Member) and Ren Lawlor (Independent Nurse Consultant and Vice-Chair of PCRS) who give their top tips for smoking cessation. They share their experience of supporting patients with advanced COPD and lung cancer to stop smoking.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Podcasts, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Podcasts, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this new series, for both existing and non-members of PCRS, we will be briefly discussing some pertinent respiratory topics
Disposable vapes will be banned in the UK as part of ambitious government plans to tackle the rise in youth vaping and protect children’s health, the Prime Minister has announced today (29 January
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, PCRS Position Statement, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
PCRS believe that it is the responsibility of every healthcare professional to treat tobacco dependency systematically and effectively. PCRS advocate that people wishing to quit using tobacco should be offered the most effective but also the least harmful methods first to support a quit attempt.
This week the BBC reported on the results of laboratory tests conducted on vapes confiscated from a school in Kidderminster.
Vaping can successfully help people address their tobacco dependence and reduce the long-term threats to their health from tobacco use.
There is still no sign of varenicline (Champix), a medication that can reduce nicotine cravings and help people quit smoking, 18 months after its approval was withdrawn in the UK due to concerns about impurities.
This week the Health Minister Neil O’Brien announced the formation of a new “illicit vapes enforcement squad” – led by Trading Standards and backed by £3 million of government funding to tackle rising levels of youth vaping.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, COPD, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, 1 hour
Can Only Plan Daily - COPD is a serious disease needing the right diagnosis and treatment with the person’s need sitting front and centre.
Taxonomy: COVID-19, Current, Infection, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, Winter Wrapped, 1 hour
This 'Get Winter Wrapped' issue focuses on the twin challenges of winter pressures and coping with COVID-19.
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2020 Dr Nicolas Hopkinson presents on Inhaled Substances: What nicotine use should we be supporting in the COVID 19 era
Taxonomy: Archive, COVID-19, Infection, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, Winter Wrapped, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, 1 hour
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, Standard, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, Winter Wrapped, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this summary document Dr Noel Baxter describes tobacco dependency as a long term relapsing condition that usually starts in childhood. In the document he outlines simple steps you can take to support patients to quit including Very Brief Advce (VBA) and he outlines the treatments availab
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, PCRS Pragmatic Guide, PCRU, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
E-cigarettes have become increasingly popular in recent years. The main reason given by current vapers for using e-cigarettes is to help them stop smoking tobacco. This pragmatic article provides information on the safety and effectiveness of e-cigarettes as a stop smoking tool.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Clinical resource or information, Current, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
The exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) test detects exposure to CO in the last 12-18 hours. This can be used to assess smoking status AFTER a quit attempt and used prior to a quit attempt as a motivational tool.