[Therapeutic group for smokers: results after two-year follow-up].

Objective: To evaluate the smokers' profile, immediate results and outcome after 25 months of treatment at a university public service.

Methods: One hundred and seventy one smokers were evaluated for treatment in the Therapeutic Group (TG) of the Service of Psychoactive Substances. We evaluated sociodemographic variables, history of smoking, presence of medical comorbidity and psychiatric symptoms, initial and late outcomes (median 25 months), by telephone contact.

[Approach on smoking cessation by training public health providers].

The study evaluated the results of a smoking cessation training program including 40 public health providers from November 2004 to March 2007. A total of 3,419 smokers received minimum individual intervention and 982 had group intervention. Of all, 9.