Publications
FIP has prepared a booklet to provide individual pharmacists and pharmaceutical organisations with examples of pharmacists' success stories and best practices in smoking cessation and tobacco control. With this initiative, FIP is encouraging pharmacists and pharmaceutical organisations to initiate and participate in tobacco control activities, together with other health professionals. To assist in the implementation process, FIP and the WHO Europharm document have prepared a document entitled: "Pharmacists Against Tobacco - 10 steps to get started".
This document outlines the role of the pharmacist in smoking cessation and describes ways in which pharmacists can get involved in this very important area of health education.
It has been written by the EuroPharm Forum in collaboration with the WHO Tobacco or Health unit and is based on the experience of a number of Member States that have already introduced smoking cessation programmes at national level. It is intended to encourage all national pharmacy associations of WHO Europe member countries to develop pharmacy-based smoking cessation initiatives and to suggest ways in which this can be done.
This document is mainly addressed to national pharmaceutical associations, although the second part of the text gives models for smoking cessation work at the level of the pharmacy. The basic idea is to give support and knowledge to pharmaceutical associations so that they are able to begin they own programmes in this area and to work in cooperation with other organizations concerned.
The text consists of the following parts:
- first part, giving background information about smoking and
describing WHO programmes; - second part, giving answers to the basic questions: “Why should
pharmacists be involved?” and “How to do it at pharmacy level”; - third part, describing the role of national pharmaceutical
associations and giving instructions for developing, implementing
and evaluating national smoking cessation programmes.
