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1. Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of premature death in Europe.
2. Which of the following drugs has been shown to increase smoking cessation quit rates.
3. Children who live with smokers are more likely to become long term smokers themselves than those from a smoke-free household.
4. Mark all correct nicotine withdrawal symptoms:
5. Peak nicotine withdrawal occurs
6. Smoking has no effect on brain chemistry
7. The following are safer forms of tobacco:
8. Smoking is deemed to be causative in which of the following conditions?
9. A pregnant woman attends an appointment with you. She mentions she is going to ‘nip out for a cigarette’ after the appointment. What do you do?
10. 1 in 10 spontaneous miscarriages occurs in smokers.
11. What are the 4 constituent ‘parts’ of an over the counter cigarette?
12. An individual says he’s thinking about stopping smoking in the next ‘month or so.’ Which ‘Stage of Change,’ is he in?
13. What is the most useful brief intervention you can give at this stage?
14. Once a smoker has quit smoking for over a year, they are no long in the maintenance phase of the ‘Stages of Change,’ model
15. The 5As and 3As approach to smoking cessation both have roughly the same level of success in promoting successful smoking cessation.
16. What are the 3As?
17. Group therapy with NRT is roughly as effective as NRT in isolation
18. A patient attends and asks about transitioning from 20 a day to an electronic cigarette. How do you respond?
19. A 65 year old smoker of 20 cigarettes/day attends an appointment. During the appointment, he has a persistent, hacking cough and when talking to him he mentions that he feels tired all the time and has been ‘off his food.’ What do you suspect is wrong?
20. Roughly what % of smokers reach full cessation per annum?

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