For those who are interested, here are some readings I recommend.  The first article provides a good basic review of smoking cessation.  The second article relates to how patients transition through the stages of smoking cessation and the predictors of change.  This article is good to read after the first article.  The third and fourth articles deal with the International Tobacco Control Four Country Survey (United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia) that studied the epidemiology of smokers, cigarette purchase patterns, smoke-free homes, predictors of cessation and role of the media.  The last article talks about Topiramate and preliminary findings as a smoking cessation aid.

1:  Srivastava P, Currie GP, Britton J.
Smoking cessation.
BMJ. 2006 Jun 3;332(7553):1324-6. Review. No abstract available.
PMID: 16740563 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2:  Hoving EF, Mudde AN, de Vries H.
Smoking and the O pattern; predictors of transitions through the stages of change.
Health Educ Res. 2006 Jun 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16763075 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

3:  Hyland A, Borland R, Li Q, Yong HH, McNeill A, Fong GT, O'Connor RJ, Cummings KM.
Individual-level predictors of cessation behaviours among participants in the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey.
Tob Control. 2006 Jun;15 Suppl 3:iii83-94.
PMID: 16754952 [PubMed - in process]

4:  Thompson ME, Fong GT, Hammond D, Boudreau C, Driezen P, Hyland A, Borland R, Cummings KM, Hastings GB, Siahpush M, Mackintosh AM, Laux FL.
Methods of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey.
Tob Control. 2006 Jun;15 Suppl 3:iii12-8.
PMID: 16754941 [PubMed - in process]

5:  Khazaal Y, Cornuz J, Bilancioni R, Zullino DF.
Topiramate for smoking cessation.
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2006 Jun;60(3):384-8.
PMID: 16732758 [PubMed - in process]

Tuhina Raman
ATOD Section Liaison to APHA-SA