Dejar de fumar......¿un caso de medicalización?

Summary Points
Research shows that two-thirds to three-quarters of ex-smokers stop unaided. In contrast, the increasing medicalisation of smoking cessation implies that cessation need be pharmacologically or professionally mediated.

Most published papers of smoking cessation interventions are studies or reviews of assisted cessation; very few describe the cessation impact of policies or campaigns in which cessation is not assisted at the individual level.

Many assisted cessation studies, but few if any unassisted cessation studies, are funded by pharmaceutical companies manufacturing cessation products.

Health authorities should emphasise the positive message that the most successful method used by most ex-smokers is unassisted cessation.

Más del 75% de los ex-fumadores dejaron de fumar sin ayuda..........en PlOS Medicine

Agonistas parciales de los receptores de nicotina para el abandono del hábito

de fumar (Revision Cochrane traducida). Cochrane Database of Systematic

Reviews 2012 Issue 4. Art. No.: CD006103. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006103