Consensus Document on Medical Faculty Education on the Treatment of Smoking.

We report the results of a consensus reached by an expert group of representatives from different medical societies in Latin America on the objectives, competencies (knowledge, and skills), content, and duration of smoking cessation education in Latin American medical schools. The document discusses the following aspects: epidemiology, nicotine dependence, factors for initiation and maintenance of tobacco use, smoking-related disorders, diagnosis, minimal intervention, non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation, and prevention of smoking.

Questions and Answers on Smoking in Patients With Diffuse ILD. Use of PICO Methodology.

Introduction: The Smoking and the Diffuse Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD) groups of ALAT and SEPAR collaborated in the preparation of this document.

Materials And Methods: This document uses PICO methodology to answer various questions on the relationship between tobacco use and diffuse ILD.

Results And Conclusions: The main recommendations are: a) moderate level of evidence and strong recommendation to consider smoking as a risk factor for the development and/or modification of the progression of diffuse ILD; b) moderate level of evidence to identify an increase in mortality in diffuse ILD, irrespective of histologic pattern.