Characteristics of COPD smokers and effectiveness and safety of smoking cessation medications.

Introduction: Smoking is the main cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and smoking cessation is the only treatment shown to be effective in arresting the progression of COPD. Different epidemiological and population-based studies have shown smokers with COPD to have specific smoking characteristics that differentiate them from the rest of smokers and which complicate smoking cessation. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effectiveness and safety of drug treatments for smoking cessation in smokers with severe or very severe COPD.

[Care results in a specialist stop-smoking unit].

Background And Objective: To present the short, medium and long-term results of a stop-smoking clinic after 5 years of experience. The clinic was designed following the SEPAR Recommendations.

Patients And Methods: Two types of clinic protocols have been applied: individual and group.